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Voyages of body and soul : selected female icons of India and beyond / edited by Ketu H. Katrak and Anita R. Ratnam ; Fawzia Afzal-Khan [and twenty eight others], contributors.

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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 p.)
Place of Publication:
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of ""Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets"" and ""Epic Women of India and Beyond."" The contributors explore the tendency of patriarchal societies to label exceptional saint-poets yearning for the divine as ""mad"" because of their resistance to normative and acceptable female behavior. Scholars and performers jour...
Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART III; A. FEMALE ICONS OF INDIA'S ANCIENT EPICS RE-VISITED; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; B. EPIC WOMEN OF INDIAN DANCE; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; C. DARK WOMEN OF EPICSAND DRAMATIC LITERATURE; CHAPTER TWENTY; D. EPIC WOMEN IN POLITICS; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  • E. FEMINIST EVALUATIONS OF EPIC WOMEN CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO; PART IV; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN; CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT; CONTRIBUTORS
Notes:
  • Description based upon print version of record.
  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2014).
ISBN:
1-4438-6115-4
OCLC:
881416935

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