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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777897603321

Titolo

Gender and story in South India / / edited by Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Lalita Handoo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-7914-8125-5

1-4294-1738-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 151 pages) : map

Collana

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Altri autori (Persone)

PrasadLeela

BottigheimerRuth B

HandooLalita

Disciplina

398.20954/8

Soggetti

Tales - India, South - History and criticism

Folk literature, Indian - History and criticism

Women in literature

Gender identity in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anklets on the Pyal: women present women's stories from South India / Leela Prasad The son-in-law story: gender and genre / Lalita Handoo The role of gender in tale-telling events / Saraswathi Venugopal Voiced worlds: heroines and healers in Muslim women's narratives / K.V.S. Lakshmi Narasamamba Transformation of gender roles: converging identities in personal and poetic narratives / P.S. Kanaka Durga

Sommario/riassunto

Gender and Story in South India presents exciting ethnographic research by Indian women scholars on Hindu and Muslim women-centered oral narratives. The book is unique for its geographic and linguistic focus on South India, for its inclusion of urban and rural locales of narration, and for its exploration of shared Hindu and Muslim female space. Drawing on the worldviews of South Indian female narrators in both everyday and performative settings, the contributors lead readers away from customary and comfortable assumptions about gender distinctions in India to experience a more dialogical, poetically ordered moral universe that is sensitive to women's material and



spiritual lives. Book jacket