Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India.
In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special e...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Myth and Poetics Ser.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on women's rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of Indigenous genres and the reception of folklore performance. The regional repertoire under examination presents a strikingly female-centered world. Female performers and characters are active, articulate, and frequently challenge or defy expectations of gender. Men also confound traditional gender roles. Flueckiger includes the translations of two full performance texts of narratives sung by female and male storytellers respectively. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (381 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1501722867 9781501727832 1501727834 9781501722868 9781501722875 1501722875 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
