Gender and narrative in the Mahābhārata / edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brodbeck, Simon, 1970-

Black, Brian, 1970-

Series:

RoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series

Routledge Hindu studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mahābhārata--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Mahābhārata.

Mahābhārata.

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