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Literariness Journal

ISSN 3108-1614

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Reclaiming the Lived Body: A Merleau-Pontian Reading of Sita in The Valmiki Ramayana and The Forest of Enchantments

Literariness Journal September 1, 2026

What happens when the woman who has been looked at begins to look through her own body?This article explores the transformation of Sita's corporeal identity from a body constituted by external perception to a body that perceives, experiences, and creates meaning.While scholarship on twenty-firstcentury women-oriented mythological retellings has extensively examined agency, resistance,...