著者名：

Muherjee, Tutun & Bharathi Harishankar (ed.)

出版元：

Orient BlackSwan

冊数：

xxxviii,375p

刊行年：

2024

ISBN：

9789354423765

Epic literature, Indic -- History and criticism

Through Indian life and culture, the epics of the subcontinent flow like the subterranean River Saraswati. Like Yuddhishthira, who is faced with the puzzling questions posed to him by the enigmatic Yaksha in the Mahabharata, the Indian Everyman, conscious of dharma and niti, is expected to find answers to ethical and existential dilemmas. While the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and Silappadikaram are the best known of the sacred narratives of the past, there exists a vast reservoir of other epics—many still in the oral tradition. This compendium, the first of its kind, explores the many literary traditions and strands that run parallel but also provide interesting contrasts in the experience of the epics. The multiple frames provide a cultural continuum which shapes and is shaped by the epics.

Introduction
Part I
1. The Epic Across Literary Cultures / Harish Trivedi
2. A Comparatist’s Reading of Epic as Genre / Ipshita Chanda
3. The First English Translation of Mahabharata: Authorship/Authority, Translation/Utility Matters / Nandini Bhattacharya
Part II
4. The Ramayana: Issues and Problems / Mohan Ramanan
5. Ezhuthaccan’s Adhyatma Ramayana and the Ramayana Tradition / K. Satchidanandan
6. Reading Ramayana in Two Contexts: From Old Tibet to Maad Dialect of Rajasthan / M.N. Rajesh and Bhim Singh
7. Mappila Ramayanam: Retelling the Epic among Malabari Muslims / Sharone K. Meeran
Part III
8. Can Rhetoric Decide Authorship? Sri Aurobindo and the Problem of the Mahabharata / Sachidananda Mohanty
9. Krsna and the Mystic Number 8 / Indrajit Bandyopadhyay
10. Aksatayoni: Regaining Virginity in the Mahabharata / Gargi Bhattacharya
11. Queering Kasirama: Myths of Gender Reversal and Transvestism in the Medieval Bengali Mahabharata / Soham Pain
Part IV
12. The Epic Imagination and its (Dis)continuities: The Mewati Mahabharata / Shail Mayaram
13. Delineating Adivasi Ethos in the Bhili Bharath / Kirti Nakhare
14. Epic Narratives in Kathakali / B. Hariharan
15. Ramakatha Adaptations in North-East India / Monbinder Kaur
Part V
16. Intersections of the Feminine in Silappadikaram / Bharathi Harishankar
17. Positioning Manimekalai as an a-Vaidiki Epic: Contemporary Reception Context in Tamil / C.T. Indra
18. Bibi Nanchari, the Muslim Goddess-Consort / Sreedevi Yadavalli
19. Waris Shah’s Heer: An Epic or a Kissa? / Rana Nayar
20. Transformation of Creation Myth into Religion: Ladakhi Tribal Epic Ling Kesar and Tibetan Epic Gesar / Stanzin Shakya
21. Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s Loona: Deconstructing the Feminine / Vivek Sachdeva

No.

53011

価格：

8,789円