Archetypal myth: goddess Durga and the resilient matriarch in Rani Manicka's The Rice Mother by Zamri, Muhamad Lothfi, Zainal, Zainor Izat

“…Indeed, Lakshmi’s resilience has interesting affinity with Durga, a principal form of the Hindu goddess, and it is against this mythological archetype that we frame the reading of the novel. …”
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