Goddesses of Kathmandu Valley: Grace, Rage, Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780367734510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Arun Gupto

Opis

This book maps the diverse identities of goddesses through metaphors of grace, rage and knowledge, and offers an in-depth insight into femininity, sexual politics, ritual worships, religion, ecology, and gender.

The second edition contains an Epilogue which further explores how the discourses on Goddesses are moulded by the myth

Recenzje

"Goddesses are found everywhere, but they are most at home in South Asia, which is the focus of Professor Gupto’s study. He has combined scholarship, theoretical astuteness and critical acumen to provide a fresh treatment of a subject of abiding interest to students of culture and the arts." - Kaiser Haq, Department of English, University of Dhaka

Spis treści

List of figures. Foreword by Syed Manzoorul Islam. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Grace, Rage and Knowledge 2. Devi and overlapping metaphors of Grace, Rage and Knowledge 3. Representations of Grace, Rage and Knowledge in valley art 4. Epistemology of the feminine and psychological posture 5. Afterword: goddesses and beauty. Epilogue. Glossary. Bibliography. Index

O autorze

Arun Gupto is Principal at the Institute of Advanced Communication, Education and Research, Kathmandu, Nepal. He has been part of the faculty at the Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University. His areas of study are literary theory, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies, and his current research is on South Asian art and religion, culminating in a documentary project entitled ‘The Art of the Lake’.