Contributions

  • Prasad, Leela, 1966- - Contributor
  • Bottigheimer, Ruth B. - Contributor
  • Handoo, Lalita. - Contributor

Publication

2006 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

40,000 words, Guess

Page Count

160 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005033337
  • LibraryThing2527854
  • Goodreads4992055

Classifications

  • DDC398.20954/8
  • LCCGR305.5.S68 G46 2006

Description

"Gender and Story in South India presents ethnographic research by Indian women scholars on Hindu and Muslim women-centered oral narratives. The book is unique for its geographic and linguistic focus on South India, for its inclusion of urban and rural locales of narration, and for its exploration of shared Hindu and Muslim female space. Drawing on the worldviews of South Indian female narrators in both everyday and performative settings, the contributors lead readers away from customary and comfortable assumptions about gender distinctions in India to experience a more dialogical, poetically ordered moral universe that is sensitive to women's material and spiritual lives."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Gender and story in South IndiaState University of New York Press2006-01-01

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