Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Brodbeck, Simon; Black, Brian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together many of the most respected scholars in the field of Mahabharata studies, as well as some of its most promising young scholars. By focusing specifically on gender constructions, some of the most innovative aspects of the Mahabharata are highlighted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134119943
• Artikelnr.: 42620446

Autorenporträt

Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black are researchers in the Department of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Brodbeck is the author of several scholarly articles on aspects of the Mahabharata; Black is the author of The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, Kings and Women in the Early Upanishads.

Inhaltsangabe

Family Tree 1. Introduction Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black 2. Listen but do
not Grieve: Grief, Paternity, and Time in the Laments of Dhrtarastra Emily
T. Hudson 3. Eavesdropping on the Epic: Female Listeners in the Mahabharata
Brian Black 4. Arguments of a Queen: Draupadi's Views on Kingship Angelika
Malinar 5. How Do You Conduct Yourself? Gender and the Construction of a
Dialogical Self in the Mahabharata Laurie L. Patton 6. Among Friends:
Marriage, Women, and some Little Birds Alf Hiltebeitel 7. Gendered
Soteriology: Marriage and the Karmayoga Simon Brodbeck 8. Bhisma as
Matchmaker Nick Allen 9. Bhisma Beyond Freud: Bhisma in the Mahabharata
James L. Fitzgerald 10. 'Show You Are a Man!': Transsexuality and Gender
Bending in the Characters of Arjuna/Brhannada and Amba/Sikhandin(i) Andrea
Custodi 11. Krsna's Son Samba: Faked Gender and other Ambiguities on the
Background of Lunar and Solar Myth Georg von Simson 12. Paradigms of the
Good in the Mahabharata: Suka and Sulabha in Quagmires of Ethics Arti
Dhand. Appendix: Concordance of Critical Edition and Ganguli/Roy
Translation