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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prasad, Leela.

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Handoo, Lalita.

Series:

SUNY series in Hindu studies.

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tales--India, South--History and criticism.

Tales.

Folk literature, Indian--History and criticism.

Folk literature, Indian.

Women in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 151 pages) : map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791481257

0791481255

9781429417389

1429417382

OCLC:

77006091