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" Gender and narrative in the Mahābhārata / "
edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black.
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BL
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1034462
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b788832
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| Title & Author
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Gender and narrative in the Mahābhārata /\ edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2007.
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Routledge Hindu studies series
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xix, 326 pages ;; 24 cm.
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020302964X
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: 0415415403
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: 0415544718
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: 9780203029640
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: 9780415415408
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: 9780415544719
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-317) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Of interest to Indologists, Hindu studies and gender studies, this book is a well-structured and well-conceived collection on gender, myth and narrative in the Mahabharata. Contributors to the volume include world-class academics, rising stars in the field and a mix of men and women.
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Gender identity in literature.
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18.64 ancient Indian languages and/or literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Geschlechterrolle
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Geschlechtsidentität
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Geschlechterrolle.
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Sexuelle Identität.
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Mahābhārata-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Mahābhārata
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Mahābhārata.
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Mahābhārata.
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294.5/923048
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294.5923046
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BL1138.27.G43 2007
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18.64bcl
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EV 321rvk
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Black, Brian,1970-
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Brodbeck, Simon,1970-
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