The Multivalence of an Epic

ISBN-13: 9781032599120 / Twarda / 2023 / 372 str.

Opis

This volume examines The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed Rāmāyaṇas.

Spis treści

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Exploring the Epic’s Multivalence: Rāmāyaṇas in Visual, Literary, and Performance Cultures

Parul Pandya Dhar

I. Visual Cultures: Sculptures, Paintings, and Inscriptions

1. The Rāmāyaṇa Retold by Sculptors and Scribes in pre-Vijayanagara Karnataka

Parul Pandya Dhar

2. Stone, Wood, Paint: Rāma-Story Representations throughout Southeast Asia

John Brockington

3. Looking for Rāma: Traces of the Rāmāyaṇa in Temples of the Pallava Dynasty

Valérie Gillet

4. Rāmāyaṇa Retold in Khmer sculpture with Special Reference to the Yuddhakāṇḍa, c. 10th-12th centuries

Rachel Loizeau

5. Rāmāyaṇa Bronzes and Sculptures from the Cōḻa to Vijayanagara Times

Sharada Srinivasan

6. Mighty Messenger: Adaptation and Localization of Hanumān and the Rāmāyaṇa in Southeast Asia

Gauri Parimoo Krishnan

7. The Rāmāyaṇa Paintings of the Māliruñcōlai Temple: Nationalism under the Spell of Regionalism

RKK Rajarajan

8. Expressions of the Rāmāyaṇa Epic in Malaysian Arts

Cheryl Thiruchelvam

II. Literary Cultures: Texts, Recitation, and Associated Imagery

9. The Discourse on Governance and Ethics as a Leitmotif in the Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa or Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin

Malini Saran

10. Thai Rāmakīen: Its Close Links with South India

Chirapat Prapandvidya

11. From Kanauj to Laos: Development of the ‘Floating Maiden’ Episode in the Southeast Asian Rāma Tradition

Mary Brockington

12. Making of a Language and the Making of a Bhakti Text: The Story of the Composition of Tunćat Ezhuttaććan’s Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇaṃ Kiḷippāṭṭu

A J Thomas

13. Kumaran Asan’s ‘Cintāviṣṭayāya Sītā’, Sītā, Deep in Thought, a Translation

Sudha Gopalakrishnan

14. Mabasan Rāmāyaṇa, a Continuous Retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa in Bali

Thomas M Hunter

III. Performance Cultures: Theatre, Puppetry, and Folk Practices

15. Representations of Rāvaṇa in a Kathakalī Piece and a Mythological Drama

Paula Richman

16. The Rāmāyaṇa of the Malay Shadow Play, Wayang Kulit Kelantan, and its Possible Parallels and Connections with the Epic Versions in Northern Southeast Asia

Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof

17. From Palace to Streets: Many Rāmāyaṇas from the Bylanes

Krishna Murthy Hanuru

18. The Making of Rāmāyaṇa in the Yakṣagāna of Coastal Karnataka

Purushottama Bilimale

19. Reamker Performance in Khmer Society

Sirang Leng

The Contributors

Index

O autorze

Parul Pandya Dhar is art historian and professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. She has authored The Toraṇa in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture (2010), edited Indian Art History: Changing Perspectives (2011), and co-edited Temple Architecture and Imagery of South and Southeast Asia (2016), Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories (2014), and Cultural Interface of India with Asia (2004), besides contributing several research articles.