The Multivalence of an Epic: Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

Synopsis

This volume examines The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rāmāyaṇa studies from Cambodia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and USA, this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality, diversity, and adaptability of the Rāmāyaṇa in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts. The journey and localization of the Rāmāyaṇa is explored in its manifold expressions – from classical to folk, from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages, and from ancient to modern times. Regional Rāmāyaṇas from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed Rāmāyaṇas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the Rāmāyaṇa. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

372 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000991963

Related ISBNs:

9781032599120, 9781003456797, 9781032599137

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

10/05/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Parul Pandya Dhar

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Philosophy

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Parul Pandya Dhar