The Other Ramayana Women: Regional Rejection and Response

ISBN-13: 9780367873813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str.

John Brockington; Mary Brockington

Opis

This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the Rāmāyaṇa. 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 sh

Spis treści

Foreword Gavin Flood

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 Rāmāyaṇ Mandakranta Bose

8. Can Sages and Women Dance Side by Side? contested text and gender in the Kavitāvalī of Tulsīdās Imre Bangha

9. Transmission and response in a grandmother’s tale Mary Brockington

Afterword: Tales of the Dispossessed: women in the Rāmāyaṇa Mandakranta Bose

Appendix: Retellings of the Rāma story with dates, and variant names

O autorze

John Brockington is Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published many books on the Sanskrit epics (Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, Harivaṃśa).

Mary Brockington is Research Fellow at the International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Austria. She has published many articles on narrative strategies in traditional literature, including many on the Sanskrit epics.