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@article{191233,
        author = {Emisha Ravani},
        title = {Myth, Memory, and the Feminine Script: Representation of Women},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {12},
        number = {no},
        pages = {1208-1214},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=191233},
        abstract = {This paper focuses on the influence of legendary women characters on popular emotions, social values, and everyday gender practices through a critical reading of Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series. Where the research will hold Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity, Stuart Hall’s concept of representation, and cultural memory theory, the study explores how women characters such as Sita, Kali, Sunaina, and Anandmayi function not merely as narrative figures but as cultural scripts shaping collective love, moral imagination, and social behavior. How do legendary women enable gender performativity in everyday social life? How does popular culture shape collective love for certain feminine ideals? In what ways do contemporary retellings revise cultural memory of women? Does rewriting myth transform social behavior or merely update ideology?
Tripathi’s reinterpretation of mythological women presents them as warriors, administrators, and ethical decision-makers, thereby revising traditional epic ideals of passive femininity. Through Butler’s framework, the paper analyzes how these characters offer alternative performances of womanhood while also interrogating whether such performances produce genuine subversion or new normative expectations. Hall’s theory of representation is employed to examine how popular mythological fiction constructs and circulates images of empowered femininity within contemporary ideological frameworks. Cultural memory theory further situates these women as enduring memory figures whose repeated circulation in popular culture sustains emotional attachment and social influence.},
        keywords = {Mythological Retellings, Gender Performativity, Cultural Memory, Representation of Women, Popular Indian English Fiction, Popular Culture and Myth},
        month = {},
        }