![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joining us for this episode is Vaishnavi Patel, whose retelling of the Ramayana centres the myth’s “evil” stepmother, Kaikeyi, instead of its traditional hero, Rama. Are we falling into the same trap yet again? Where are the non-western myths? Where are the authors of colour? When reimagined myth is at its most popular, why are we still reading predominantly about Greece? Publishing is ever-ravenous for Greek myths, despite so little of it being written by actual Greeks. Happily, Vaishnavi Patel’s debut, Kaikeyi, is here to help change that, with its fierce and feminist reframing of the story of one of the most despised queens of Indian mythology, best known. Now the popularity of mythological retellings is at an all-time high and bookshops are flooded with tales of heroic women reclaiming their stories.īut these stories are still so very white, so very western. I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positionsmuch good it did. When Madeline Miller published Circe, it heralded the start of a new wave of feminist retellings, in which writers revisited well-known classics in order to tell the stories of those excluded from the dominant narrative. Redhook is thrilled to announce the acquisition of KAIKEYI, Vaishnavi Patel’s sweeping, powerful, and provocative debut, which reimagines the life of Kaikeyi, the long-vilified queen of the Indian epic the Ramayana. ![]()
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