• Alka Vishwakarma

The present has always the essence of past which continues to live simultaneously with present. The past therefore has a significant place in the construction of the present. Historicism as a critical approach refers to historical perspective. It challenges the linear and uniform progressive approach to history. It castigates the notion of truth, fact and rationality; and it argues for the historical contexts of knowledge and truth. Rani is a historical novel which deals with the story of Rani Laxmibai, popularly known as the freedom fighter of India. She has always been idolized as a goddess who has fought for the freedom of her country. Jaishree Misra speaks of her personal affairs besides her involvement with the public world. She has re-created the history behind the life of this warrior and has rendered her story as a common girl who goes through all significant phase of human life. The present paper intends to explore how a warrior’s life has found all the voices of a woman that has been denied under the curtain of history. However, her fictionalized life might have some resemblance or no resemblance with her actual life.

Stereotype, body, womanhood, sexuality, motherhood.

"First a Woman then a Warrior: Disassembling Stereotype in Jaishree Misra’s Novel Rani", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.12-25, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906U40.pdf

"First a Woman then a Warrior: Disassembling Stereotype in Jaishree Misra’s Novel Rani", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp12-25, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906U40.pdf