Stri: Women in Epic Mahabharata: Women in Epic Mahābhārata (Ilex Foundation Series, Band 2) - Softcover

McGrath, Kevin

 
9780674031982: Stri: Women in Epic Mahabharata: Women in Epic Mahābhārata (Ilex Foundation Series, Band 2)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674031989 ISBN 13: 9780674031982
Verlag: Ilex Foundation, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This book is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them. It portrays those qualities that cohere about women in the poem, which are particular to them and which distinguish them as women, and describes how women heroes function as crucial speakers in the generation and maintenance of cultural value and worth. This includes men who have been transformed into women and women who have been reincarnated as men. The overall method accomplishes an ethnography of text, describing a special aspect of the bronze age preliterate and premonetary world as it is represented by the actions and metaphors of Mahabharata. References to contemporary Indian cinema and popular culture support the narrative of the book, bringing modern valence to the arguments.

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Kevin McGrath is an Associate of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University.

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Verlag
Ilex Foundation
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674031989
ISBN 13 
9780674031982
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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