Gender and genre in the folklore of Middle India
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1996, 1996
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| Series: | Myth and poetics
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-343) and index
- Foreword / by Gregory Nagy
- Introduction : region, repertoire, and genre
- Soaking the goddess, celebrating friendship : Bhojalī
- Brave daughters, bound kings : a female tradition of reversal : Ḍālkhāī
- Land of wealth, land of famine : the "Parrot dance" in ritual and narrative : Suā Nāc
- Joining verse to verse : professional storytelling and individual creativity : Kathānī Kūhā
- "This is our story" : a Chhattisgarhi epic : Candainī
- Paṇḍvānī heroines, Chhattisgarhi daughters : Paṇḍvānī
- Conclusion: shifting boundaries of genre and community
- The Song of Subanbali
- Kathānī Kūhā : of friendship, love, and memory
- Sample transcriptions of performance texts