Jatanā: A Peasant Woman's Ballad from Haryana in North India. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kumar, Devender
• Is Part Of: Folklore. Volume 128:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 57
• Page End: 74
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Folklore -- Periodicals; Manners and customs -- Periodicals; 398
• DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2016.1224151
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0015-587X

Abstract

Abstract: Women's private folk songs in male-dominated societies often keep a fascinating record of their critique of the patriarchy's hegemonic tendencies. These folk songs reveal the women's sense of resentment against their subordinated position in a patriarchal system, and also their desire to live in an egalitarian world. This article analyses a North Indian Haryanvi peasant women's folk ballad called Jatanā as a site of both resentment against masculinist culture and imaginative and defiant escape from its bounds.