03371nam 2200661Ia 450 991082769460332120200520144314.01-281-19725-40-19-803763-597866111972541-4294-1045-00-19-516833-X(CKB)2560000000300073(EBL)3052329(OCoLC)74175157(SSID)ssj0000089124(PQKBManifestationID)11124338(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089124(PQKBWorkID)10104036(PQKB)11625677(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075058(MiAaPQ)EBC3052329(Au-PeEL)EBL3052329(CaPaEBR)ebr10212066(CaONFJC)MIL119725(MiAaPQ)EBC7037502(Au-PeEL)EBL7037502(OCoLC)52727731(FINmELB)ELB164499(EXLCZ)99256000000030007320030715d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Ramayana revisited /edited by Mandakranta BoseOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (397 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-516832-1 0-19-983536-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Resisting Ram̄a: Dharmic Debates on Gender and Hierarchy and the Work of the Valmıki Ramayanfia; 2. Gendered Narratives: Gender, Space, and Narrative Structures in Valmiki's Balakanfidfia; 3. Ramayana Textual Traditions in Eastern India; 4. Reinventing the Ramayana in Twentieth-Century Bengali Literature; 5. Why Can't a Shudra Perform Asceticism? Sambuka in Three Modern South Indian Plays; 6. Hanuman's Adventures Underground: The Narrative Logic of a Ramayana ""Interpolation""; 7. "Only You": The Wedding of Rama and Sita, Past and Present8. WhenDoes Sita Cease to Be Sita? Notes toward a Cultural Grammar of Indian Narratives 9. Representing the Ramayana on the Kutiyattam State ; 10. The ""Radio-Active"" Gita-Ramayana: Home and Abroad ; 11. Mysticism and Islam in Javanese Ramayana Tales; 12. Chasing Sita on a Global/Local Interface: Where Cartographies Collide, Silent Vessels "Tell in Full"; 13. The Ramayana in the Arts of Thailand and Cambodia; 14. The Ramayana Theme in the Visual Arts of South and Southeast Asia; Appendix 1 Ramayana in Asia; Appendix 2 Variant Names of Main Characters; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; IJK; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z14 leading 'Ramayana' scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts throughout South and Southeast Asia. They explore the role the narrative plays in societies as varied as India Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. The essays also expand the understanding of the 'text' to include non-verbal renditions of the epic.HinduismLiteratureHinduismLiterature.294.5/922046Bose Mandakranta1938-848195MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827694603321The Ramayaṇa revisited4061104UNINA