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Gender and narrative in the Mahābhārata /

020302964X

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Gender and narrative in the Mahābhārata /

[Book]

edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black.

New York :

Routledge,

2007.

xix, 326 pages ;

24 cm.

Routledge Hindu studies series

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-317) and index.

Listen but do not grieve : grief, paternity, and time in the laments of Dhṛtarāṣṭra / Emily T. Hudson -- Eavesdropping on the epic : female listeners in the Mahābhārata / Brian Black -- Arguments of a queen : Draupadī's views on kingship / Angelika Malinar -- How do you conduct yourself? : gender and the construction of a dialogical self in the Mahābhārata / Laurie L. Patton -- Among friends : marriage, women, and some little birds / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Gendered soteriology : marriage and the karmayoga / Simon Brodbeck -- Bhīṣma as matchmaker / Nick Allen -- Bhīṣma beyond Freud : Bhīṣma in the Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald -- 'Show you are a man!' : transsexuality and gender bending in the characters of Arjuna/Bṛhannaḍā and Ambā/Śikhaṇḍin(ī) / Andrea Custodi -- Kṛṣṇa's son Sāmba : faked gender and other ambiguities on the background of lunar and solar myth / Georg von Simson -- Paradigms of the good in the Mahābhārata : Śuka and Sulabhā in quagmires of ethics / Arti Dhand.

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Of interest to Indologists, Hindu studies and gender studies, this book is a well-structured and well-conceived collection on gender, myth and narrative in the Mahabharata. Contributors to the volume include world-class academics, rising stars in the field and a mix of men and women.

Mahābhārata-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Mahābhārata

Mahābhārata.

Mahābhārata.

Gender identity in literature.

18.64 ancient Indian languages and/or literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Geschlechterrolle

Geschlechterrolle.

Geschlechtsidentität

Sexuelle Identität.

Black, Brian,1970-

Brodbeck, Simon,1970-

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