Gender and narrative in the Mahābhārata. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black.
• Other Names: Brodbeck, Simon, 1970-; Black, Brian, 1970-
• Contents: Listen but do not grieve : grief, paternity, and time in the laments of Dhṛtarāṣṭra / Emily T. Hudson -- Eavesdropping on the epic : female listeners in the Mahābhārata / Brian Black -- Arguments of a queen : Draupadī's views on kingship / Angelika Malinar -- How do you conduct yourself? : gender and the construction of a dialogical self in the Mahābhārata / Laurie L. Patton -- Among friends : marriage, women, and some little birds / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Gendered soteriology : marriage and the karmayoga / Simon Brodbeck -- Bhīṣma as matchmaker / Nick Allen -- Bhīṣma beyond Freud : Bhīṣma in the Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald -- 'Show you are a man!' : transsexuality and gender bending in the characters of Arjuna/Bṛhannaḍā and Ambā/Śikhaṇḍin(ī) / Andrea Custodi -- Kṛṣṇa's son Sāmba : faked gender and other ambiguities on the background of lunar and solar myth / Georg von Simson -- Paradigms of the good in the Mahābhārata : Śuka and Sulabhā in quagmires of ethics / Arti Dhand.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages), (1 illustrations)
• Subjects: 294.5/923048; 294.5923046; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; Gender identity in literature; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134119943; 1134119941
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.