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Burning Women Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India

In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European construct...

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Main Author: Banerjee, Pompa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2003, 2003
Series:Early Modern Cultural Studies
Subjects:
Literature / Philosophy
Sex (psychology)
Literary Theory
Literature, Modern
Literature
Postcolonial/world Literature
Culture / Study And Teaching
Sociology
Early Modern/renaissance Literature
Gender Studies
Gender Expression
Cultural Theory
Gender Identity
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520 |a In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of 'Eastern barbarity' 

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