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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272353403321

Autore

Flueckiger Joyce Burkhalter

Titolo

Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India / / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2018

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018]

©1996

ISBN

1-5017-2286-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Myth and Poetics

Disciplina

398/.0954/3

Soggetti

Folklore - India - Chhatt̄isgarh

Women - India - Chhattīsgarh

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Foreword / Nagy, Gregory -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- I. Introduction: Region, Repertoire, and Genre -- 2. Soaking the Goddess, Celebrating Friendship Bhojalī -- 3. Brave Daughters, Bound Kings: A Female Tradition of Reversal Ḍālkhāī -- 4. Land of Wealth, Land of Famine: The "Parrot Dance" in Ritual and Narrative Suā Nāc -- 5. Joining Verse to Verse: Professional Storytelling and Individual Creativity Kathānī Kūhā -- 6. "This Is Our Story": A Chhattisgarhi Epic Candainī -- 7. Paṇḍvānī Heroines, Chhattisgarhi Daughters Paṇḍvānī -- 8. Conclusion: Shifting Boundaries of Genre and Community -- The Song of Subanbali -- Kathānī Kūhā: Of Friendship, Love, and Memory -- Sample Transcriptions of Performance Texts -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on women's rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of indigenous



genres and the reception of folklore performance. The regional repertoire under examination presents a strikingly female-centered world. Female performers and characters are active, articulate, and frequently challenge or defy expectations of gender. Men also confound traditional gender roles. Flueckiger includes the translations of two full performance texts of narratives sung by female and male storytellers respectively.