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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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Other Authors: Prasad, Leela, Bottigheimer, Ruth B., Handoo, Lalita
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Tales > India, South > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Indian > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1429417382
9781429417389
9780791481257
0791481255
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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