UID:
edoccha_9958057570702883
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2019
ISBN:
0-520-91175-X
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0-585-10444-1
Content:
Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramayanas. While most scholars continue to rely on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana as the authoritative version of the tale, the contributors to this volume do not. Their essays demonstrate the multivocal nature of the Ramayana by highlighting its variations according to historical period, political context, regional literary tradition, religious affiliation, intended audience, and genre. Socially marginal groups in Indian society--Telugu women, for example, or Untouchables from Madhya Pradesh--have recast the Rama story to reflect their own views of the world, while in other hands the epic has become the basis for teachings about spiritual liberation or the demand for political separatism. Historians of religion, scholars of South Asia, folklorists, cultural anthropologists--all will find here refreshing perspectives on this tale.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front matter --
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CONTENTS --
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PREFACE --
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A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION --
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1. Introduction: The Diversity of the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition --
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2. Three Hundred Rāmāyaṇas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation --
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3. Rāmāyaṇa, Rāma Jātaka, and Ramakien: A Comparative Study of Hindu and Buddhist Traditions --
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4. The Mutilation of Śūrpaṇakhā --
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5. Fire and Flood: The Testing of Sītā in Kampaṉ's Irāmāvatāram --
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6. A Rāmāyaṇa of Their Own: Women's Oral Tradition in Telugu --
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7. The Raja's New Clothes: Redressing Rāvaṇa in Meghanāiavaiha Kāvya --
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8. Creating Conversations: The Rāma Story as Puppet Play in Kerala --
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9. E. V. Ramasami's Reading of the Rāmāyaṇa --
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10. Rāmāyaṇa Exegesis in Teṉkalai Śrīvaișṇavism --
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11. The Secret Life of Rāmcandra of Ayodhya --
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12. Personalizing the Rāmāyaṇ: Rāmnāmīs and Their Use of the Rāmcaritmānas --
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CONTRIBUTORS --
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INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-07589-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-07281-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520911758
