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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 exploration of shared Hindu and Muslim female space. Drawing on the worldviews of South Indian female narrators in both everyday and performative settings, the contributors lead readers away from customary and comfortable assumptions about gender distinctions in India to experience a more dialogical, poetically ordered moral universe that is sensitive to women's material and spiritual lives.
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1. Anklets on the Pyal: Women Present Women’s Stories from South India
Leela Prasad

2. The Son-in-law Story: Gender and Genre
Lalita Handoo

3. The Role of Gender in Tale-Telling Events
Saraswathi Venugopal

4. Voiced Worlds: Heroines and Healers in Muslim Women’s Narratives
K. V. S. Lakshmi Narasamamba

5. Transformation of Gender Roles: Converging Identities in Personal and Poetic Narratives
P. S. Kanaka Durga

Afterword
Ruth Bottigheimer

Contributors
Index

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India

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791481257
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Gender and Story in South India

SUNY series in Hindu Studies

Wendy Doniger, editor

Gender and Story in South India

Edited by Leela Prasad Ruth B. Bottigheimer Lalita Handoo

State University of New York Press

Cover image: Folk Ramayana on Kalamkari (detail) personal collection of Harriet Vidyasagar, editor, outofindia.net.

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Gender and story in South India / edited by Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Lalita Handoo. p. cm.— (SUNY series in Hindu Studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6871-2 (alk. paper) 1. Tales—India, South—History and criticism. 2. Folk literature—India, South—History and criticism. 3. Women in literature. 4. Gender identity in literature. I. Prasad, Leela II. Bottigheimer, Ruth B. III. Handoo, Lalita.

GR305.5.S68G46 2006 398.20954'8—dc22

ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6871-5 (alk. paper)

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Contents

1. Anklets on the Pyal: Women Present Women’s Stories from South India Leela Prasad

2. The Soninlaw Story: Gender and Genre Lalita Handoo

3. The Role of Gender in TaleTelling Events Saraswathi Venugopal

4. Voiced Worlds: Heroines and Healers in Muslim Women’s Narratives K. V. S. Lakshmi Narasamamba

5. Transformation of Gender Roles: Converging Identities in Personal and Poetic Narratives P. S. Kanaka Durga

Afterword Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Contributors

Index

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Acknowledgments

Essays by P. S. Kanaka Durga, Lakshmi Narasamamba, Lalita Handoo, and Saraswathi Venugopal were presented at the XIth Congress of the Interna-tional Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR), hosted by the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore. Very different versions appeared in 1999 inFolklore and Gender, edited by Lalita Handoo and Ruth B. Bot-tigheimer, as volume 6 in a series overseen and edited by Jawaharlal Handoo and published by Zooni Publications in Mysore. As per the requirements of an earlier contract for that volume, Lalita Handoo’s name is incorporated in this volume as editor. The book is the culmination of a sustained interaction between the authors of the essays and Leela Prasad over a decade and across continents. RBB

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Anklets on the Pyal: Women Present Women’s Stories from South India

LEELAPRASAD

Ululuuluulu-a, hayi Effortlessly May you overcome troubles Ululuuluulu-a, hayi

A girl is born, a swan is born A boy is born, a pearl is born Ululuuluulu-a, hayi

Do not weep, do not weep, my silly little girl If you weep, your eyes will flow with tears Ululuuluulu-a, hayi

Do not weep, do not weep, my silly little girl I cannot bear to see tears flow from your eyes Ululuuluulu-a, hayi

Let it be milk instead that flows from your golden eyes Ululuuluulu-a, hayi

Bogeyman, come here, weaving your baskets Give us the little girl in your basket and go Ululuuluulu-a, hayi

I am grateful to Ruth Bottigheimer and Pika Ghosh for help in fine-tuning this intro-ductory chapter. Any discordant notes that remain are mine.