Francesca Orsini (ed.)

Love in South Asia

Herausgeber: Orsini, Francesca

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Produktbeschreibung

Love may be a universal feeling, but culture and language play a crucial role in defining it. This broad-ranging collection explores how the discourses of love have developed in South Asia, with contributions by leading scholars from the worlds of literature, history, anthropology, film studies and political theory.

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Produktdetails

• University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780521856782
• ISBN-10: 0521856787
• Artikelnr.: 21114881

Autorenporträt

Francesca Orsini is Lecturer in Hindi at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of The Hindi Public Sphere: 1920-1940. Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism (OUP, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Francesca Orsini; Part I. Love and Courtliness: 2. The
household and the pleasure garden: love and dynastic marriage in the
post-Gupta period Daud Ali; 3. If music be the food of love: music,
masculinity and eroticism in the Mughal mehfil Katherine B. Brown; Part II.
Worldly Love and Mystical Love: 4. The shifting sands of love Christopher
Shackle; 5. Love, passion and reason in Faizi's Nal-Daman Muzaffar Alam and
Sanjay Subrahmanyam; 6. To die at the hands of love Jeevan S. Deol; Part
III. Love and (Colonial) Modernity: 7. Tagore and transformations in the
ideal of love Sudipta Kaviraj; 8. The spaces of love and the passing of the
seasons Vasudha Dalmia; Part IV. Shifting Paradigms: 9. Love in the time of
Parsi theatre Anuradha Kapur; 10. Love letters Francesca Orsini; 11. Love's
repertoire: Qurratulain Hyder's Ag ka darya Kumkum Sangari; Part V.
Contemporary Lovescapes: 12. Kiss or tell? Declaring love in Hindi films
Rachel Dwyer; 13. Love's cup, love's thorn, love's end: the language of
prem in Ghatiyali Ann Grodzins Gold; 14. Kidnapping, elopement and
abduction: an ethnography of love-marriage in Delhi Perveez Mody.