| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 378 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Resisting Rāma: dharmic debates on gender and hierarchy and the work of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa / Robert P. Goldman -- Gendered narratives: gender, space, and narrative structures in Vālmīki's Bālakāṇḍa / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman -- Rāmāyaṇa textual traditions in eastern India / William L. Smith -- Reinventing the Rāmāyaṇa in twentieth-century Bengali literature / Mandakranta Bose -- Why can't a shudra perform asceticism?: Śambūka in three modern south Indian plays / Paula Richman -- Hanumān's adventures underground: the narrative logic of a Rāmāyaṇa 'interpolation' / Philip Lutgendorf -- 'Only you': the wedding of Rāma and Sītā, past and present / Heidi Pauwels -- When does Sītā cease to be Sītā?: notes toward a cultural grammar of Indian narratives / Velcheru Narayana Rao -- Representing the Rāmāyaṇa on the Kūṭiyāṭṭam stage / Bruce M. Sullivan -- The 'radio-active' Gīta-Rāmāyaṇa: home and abroad / Vidyut Aklujkar -- Mysticism and Islam in Javanese Rāmāyaṇa tales / Laurie J. Sears -- Chasing Sītā on a global/local interface: where cartographies collide, silent vessels 'tell in full' / Kaja M. McGowan -- The Rāmāyaṇa in the arts of Thailand and Cambodia / Julie B. Mehta -- The Rāmāyaṇa theme in the visual arts of south and southeast Asia / Kapila Vatsyayan -- The Rāmāyaṇa in Asia -- Variant names of main characters |
| Summary |
14 leading 'Ramayana' scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts throughout South and Southeast Asia. They explore the role the narrative plays in societies as varied as India, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. The essays also expand the understanding of the 'text' to include non-verbal renditions of the epic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa
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| SUBJECT |
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa gnd |
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Rāmāyaṇa (Vālmīki) fast |
| Subject |
RELIGION -- Hinduism -- Sacred Writings.
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Ramayana (anoniem)
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Hinduism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bose, Mandakranta, 1938-
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| LC no. |
2003058112 |
| ISBN |
1429410450 |
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9781429410458 |
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0195168321 |
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9780195168327 |
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9780195168334 |
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019516833X |
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