The Bride in the Cultural Imagination

Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions
Herausgeber: Parnell, Jo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines representation of the cultural and personal realties of the bride in popular cultural texts around the world. Written by authors from a wide range of disciplinary and national contexts, the essays take a perspective on the bride that reveals similarities rather than differences across cultures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781793616135
• ISBN-10: 1793616132
• Artikelnr.: 59943630

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jo Parnell - Foreword by Kevin Hall - Contributions by Gladys Abdoul; Sharofat Arabova; Jane Bellemore; Alessandra Consolaro; Azza Harras; Andrew Howe; Dr. Josephine May; Rosana Murias; Shalini Nadaswaran; Jo Parnell; Zoly Rakotoniera and David

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kevin Hall
Introduction by Jo Parnell and Josephine May
1.Plautus, Catullus and Public Depictions of the Bride in Rome
Jane Bellemore
2.In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Post-War
Novela Rosa
Rosana Murias
3.Sex and the Bride: Citra Mudgal's Hindi Short Story Dulhin as a Mirror of
Changing Family Relations in Contemporary India
Alessandra Consolaro
4.Here Comes the (Bollywood) Bride: Gender, Power, Family, and Patriarchy
in
Millennial India
Andrew Howe
5.Ideological and Cultural Manifestations in Bridal Narrative and the Image
of the Bride in Modern Egyptian Visual Culture
Azza Harras
6.The Image of a Bride in Tajik Cinema
Sharofat Arabova
7.The "Economics" of Bride Price in Nigerian Women's Literature
Shalini Nadaswaran
8.The Bride's Agency: East Africa Novelistic and Dramatic Imaginaries
Wafula Yenjela
9.Advertising the Bride in South-Eastern Indian Ocean Islands
Zoly Rakotoniera and Gladys Abdoul