This paper presents a cross-cultural comparative reading of Medusa by Sylvia Plath and Draupadi by Supata Bhattacharya through the conceptual framework of the Body-as-Archive. Rather than approaching these poems through familiar feminist or psychoanalytic lenses, this study argues that both poets imagine the female body as a living site where histories of control, violation, and resistance are stored. The body, in this sense, is not passive; it remembers, accumulates, and reacts. Drawing loosely on theoretical ideas about the body as a site of inscription, the paper suggests that trauma in these poems does not remain confined to the past.
Yogadharshini Paramasivam (Thu,) studied this question.