| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge Hindu studies series |
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RoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series.
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| Contents |
1. Re-creation, refashioning, rejection, response : how the narrative developed / John Brockington -- 2. Śūrpaṇakhā in the Jain Rāmāyaṇas / Eva De Clercq -- 3. Betrayed by the beloved : lustful wives and devoted mothers in the Jain Rāmāyaṇas / Mary Brockington -- 4. The adventures of Rāma, Sītā and Rāvaṇa in Tibet / Ulrike Roesler -- 5. Afflicted mothers and abused women : the words behind the pictures / John Brockington, Mary Brockington and Rachel Loizeau-Pajaniradja -- 6. Women in crisis : South Indian pictorial versions of the Rāmāyaṇa narrative / Anna Dallapiccola -- 7. Designing women : felicitous malice in a Bengali Rāmāyaṇa / Mandakranta Bose -- 8. Can sages and women dance side by side? Contested text and gender in the Kavitāvalī of Tulsīdās / Imre Bangha -- 9. Narrator and audience : women's role as re-creators of the tradition / Mary Brockington -- 10. Tales of the dispossessed : women in the Rāmāyaṇa / Mandakranta Bose |
| Summary |
This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the Ramayana. Contributors explore in what ways the versions relate to other Ramayana texts as they deal with the female persona and the cultural values implicit in them. Using a wide variety of approaches, both analytical and descriptive, the authors discover common ground between narrative variants even as their diversity is recognized. It offers an analysis in the shaping of the heterogeneous Rama tradition through time as it can be viewed from the perspective of narrating women's lives. Through the analysis of the representation and treatment of female characters, narrative inventions, structural design, textual variants, and the idiom of composition and technique in art and sculpture are revealed and it is shown what and in which way these alternative versions are unique |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa
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| SUBJECT |
Rāmāyaṇa (Vālmīki) fast |
| Subject |
Women in Hinduism.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Women in Hinduism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brockington, J. L., editor.
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Brockington, Mary, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317390633 |
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1317390636 |
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9781317390626 |
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1317390628 |
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