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Gender and narrative in the Mahābhārata / edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black.
Van Pelt Library BL1138.27 .G43 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- RoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series
- Routledge Hindu studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mahābhārata--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Mahābhārata.
- MahaÌbhaÌrata.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 326 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Contents:
- Listen but do not grieve : grief, paternity, and time in the laments of Dhṛtarāṣṭra / Emily T. Hudson
- Eavesdropping on the epic : female listeners in the Mahābhārata / Brian Black
- Arguments of a queen : Draupadī's views on kingship / Angelika Malinar
- How do you conduct yourself? : gender and the construction of a dialogical self in the Mahābhārata / Laurie L. Patton
- Among friends : marriage, women, and some little birds / Alf Hiltebeitel
- Gendered soteriology : marriage and the karmayoga / Simon Brodbeck
- Bhīṣma as matchmaker / Nick Allen
- Bhīṣma beyond Freud : Bhīṣma in the Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald
- 'Show you are a man!' : transsexuality and gender bending in the characters of Arjuna/Bṛhannaḍā and Ambā/Śikhaṇḍin(ī) / Andrea Custodi
- Kṛṣṇa's son Sāmba : faked gender and other ambiguities on the background of lunar and solar myth / Georg von Simson
- Paradigms of the good in the Mahābhārata : Śuka and Sulabhā in quagmires of ethics / Arti Dhand.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415415403
- 020302964X
- 9780415415408
- 9780203029640
- OCLC:
- 79860814
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