Gender And Story In South India
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Gender And Story In South India
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Author : Leela Prasad
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Gender And Story In South India written by Leela Prasad and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Ramayana Stories In Modern South India
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Author : Paula Richman
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-06
Ramayana Stories In Modern South India written by Paula Richman and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Fresh perspectives on the classic Indiana epic.
Dalit Women
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Author : Clarinda Still
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-06
Dalit Women written by Clarinda Still and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with History categories.
One of the only ethnographic studies of Dalit women, this book gives a rich account of individual Dalit women’s lives and documents a rise in patriarchy in the community. The author argues that as Dalits’ economic and political position improves, ‘honour’ becomes crucial to social status. One of the ways Dalits accrue honour is by altering patterns of women’s work, education and marriage, and by adopting dominant-caste gender practices. But Dalits are not simply becoming like upper castes; they are simultaneously asserting a distinct, politicised Dalit identity, formed in direct opposition to the dominant castes. They are developing their own ‘politics of culture’. Key to both, the author argues, is the ‘respectability’ of women. This has significant effects on gender equality in the Dalit community.
Class Gender In India
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Author : Patricia Caplan
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1985-01-01
Class Gender In India written by Patricia Caplan and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with Middle class categories.
Gender Genre And Power In South Asian Expressive Traditions
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Author : Arjun Appadurai
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Release Date : 1994
Gender Genre And Power In South Asian Expressive Traditions written by Arjun Appadurai and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills, Editors The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia. South Asia Seminar 1991 ] 464 pages ] 6 x 9 ] 7 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1337-9 ] Paper ] $27.50s ] 18.00 World Rights ] Anthropology
Poetics Of Conduct
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Author : Leela Prasad
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
Poetics Of Conduct written by Leela Prasad and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Religion categories.
Leela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking along with stylized, publicly delivered ethical discourse, and shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. Prasad builds on more than a decade of her ethnographic research in the famous Hindu pilgrimage town of Sringeri, Karnataka, in southwestern India, where for centuries a vibrant local culture has flourished alongside a tradition of monastic authority. Oral narratives and the seeing-and-doing orientations that are part of everyday life compel the question: How do individuals imagine the normative, and negotiate and express it, when normative sources are many and diverging? Moral persuasiveness, Prasad suggests, is intimately tied to the aesthetics of narration, and imagination plays a vital role in shaping how people create, refute, or relate to "text," "moral authority," and "community." Lived understandings of ethics keep notions of text and practice in flux and raise questions about the constitution of "theory" itself. Prasad's innovative use of ethnography, poetics, philosophy of language, and narrative and performance studies demonstrates how the moral self, with a capacity for artistic expression, is dynamic and gendered, with a historical presence and a political agency.
Women And Miracle Stories
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Author : Anna Korte
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Women And Miracle Stories written by Anna Korte and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Religion categories.
This book contains a multidisciplinary collection of studies on women in miracle stories found in texts ranging from religious classics to contemporary literary fiction. Miracle stories are a genre of great importance for the study of women's religious inheritance and for the historical and cultural understanding of women as 'makers of faith'. Miracle stories are very generally speaking more open to popular religion and culture than, for instance, doctrinal and official ecclesiastical texts, and as such, they can be of special interest to the study of women's lives and religious aspirations. Remarkably, up till now this genre has not been looked at from this point of view. This book aims to open this field for further research by presenting case studies from diverse angles and disciplines. Some of the questions this book tries to answer are: What do miracle stories specifically tell us about women? Are there some (types of) miracles that are in particular related to (certain groups of) women? What do these stories tell us about women as performers and/or subjects of miracles? What can be said about the social function and religious meaning of miracles by specifically looking at the way certain groups of women are practising and experiencing miracles? By including research on miracle stories in contemporary fiction written by women this book also wants to acknowledge and research the disputed status of 'miracles' as well of 'women' in our present society which is moving from modernity to post-modernity. Please note that Women and Miracle Stories is previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 16681 8, still available).
Gender In South Asia
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Author : Subhadra Mitra Channa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Gender In South Asia written by Subhadra Mitra Channa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Social Science categories.
This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and ethnographic materials forming a historical discourse. There is an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations across time and space. The readers are taken on a journey that shows how gender can only be understood in its social and historical context and as a dynamic and performative concept that emerges out of both collective imaginations and social realities. The use of descriptive and narrative style makes the book readable and enjoyable to both academic and non-academic readers.
Empowerment Of Tribal Women In South India
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Empowerment Of Tribal Women In South India written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Converting Women
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Author : Eliza F. Kent
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2004
Converting Women written by Eliza F. Kent and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
At the height of British colonialism, conversion to Christianity was a path to upward mobility for Indian low-castes and untouchables, especially in the Tamil-speaking south of India. Kent examines these conversions, focusing especially on the experience of women converts and the ways in which conversion transformed gender roles and expectations.