期刊名称：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN：1308-5581
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：4
页码：1582-1585
DOI：10.9756/INTJECSE/V14I4.205
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：Mythology refers to stories, symbols, and rituals that convey the subjective truth. Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are largely dominating our country’s value system. Ramayanais one of the first two ancient Indian epics which built the foundation of the cultural and moral value system. This is the age of retelling of Mythologies. Today one can find several ancient epics from the viewpoint of different characters. Rewriting the mythology has been an effective tool of the feminists to subvert the ideas of the Ideal woman. The epic has always been used to focus on the feminine virtues of Sita. This paper aims at exploring the feminist thoughts of Urmila and how Kavita Kane develops this unvoiced Urmila as the most voicing character in Ramayana. Kavita KaneSita’s Sister,Urmila gives a feminist voice allowing the reader to view the epic from a new angle that without Urmila there is no Ramayana. In such a way Kavita Kane proved Urmila’s identity. About the Author: Kavita Kane is a contemporary female author of Indian origin. Though she was born in Mumbai she grew up mostly in Patna and Delhi. She started her career as a journalist and later became a full-time writer. With a postgraduate degree in English literature and Mass Communication and her career in journalism, she is a keen observer of human nature and uses that in her books. She was very fond of mythology as a subject while studying English literature. She was very comfortable with the mythology as it is a huge canvas to express contemporary thoughts through our old stories to recreate and reinterpret characters populating our mythology to invest them with a certain present-day sensibility, especially against the social framework of change. In the mythos-fiction age, Kane wrote about Uruvi, Urmila, Menaka, Surpanakha, and Satyavathi, all unvoiced characters in Ramayana and Mahabharata.
