Gender and story in South India /
Gender and Story in South India presents exciting 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 explo...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=176217 |
Table of Contents:
- Anklets on the Pyal: women present women's stories from South India / Leela Prasad
- The son-in-law story: gender and genre / Lalita Handoo
- The role of gender in tale-telling events / Saraswathi Venugopal
- Voiced worlds: heroines and healers in Muslim women's narratives / K.V.S. Lakshmi Narasamamba
- Transformation of gender roles: converging identities in personal and poetic narratives / P.S. Kanaka Durga.