Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India

ISBN-13: 9781349730469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 278 str.

Pompa Banerjee; P. Banerjee

Opis

In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology.

Recenzje

'Overall this is an impressive book which synthesizes disparate narratives of discovery, morality, and gender differentiation to illuminate the role of women in early modern culture.' - Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University

Spis treści

Introduction Renaissance Crossings; Widows, Witches, and Forms of Literary Haunting Under Western Eyes: Sati and Witches in European Representations Instructions for Christian Women: The Sati and European Widows Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers Civility and "dying" to Speak: the Sati, Fetish, and History

O autorze

POMPA BANERJEE is Assistant Professor of English at University of Colorado, Denver and author of a number of articles on east-west connections in the early modern period.