Many Mahabharatas by Nell Shapiro Hawley (English) Paperback Book

Description: Many Mahabharatas by Nell Shapiro Hawley, Sohini Sarah Pillai A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahbhrata studies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Many Mahbhratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahbhrata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahbhrata, an early epic poem that narrates the events of a catastrophic fratricidal war. Along the way, it draws in nearly everything else in Hindu mythology, philosophy, and story literature. The magnitude of its scope and the relentless complexity of its worldview primed the Mahbhrata for uncountable tellings in South Asia and beyond. For two thousand years, the instinctive approach to the Mahbhrata has been not to consume it but to create it anew.The many Mahbhratas of this book come from the first century to the twenty-first. They are composed in nine different languages—Apabhramsha, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu. Early chapters illuminate themes of retelling within the Sanskrit Mahbhrata itself, demonstrating that the storys propensity for regeneration emerges from within. The majority of the book, however, reaches far beyond the Sanskrit epic. Readers dive into classical dramas, premodern vernacular poems, regional performance traditions, commentaries, graphic novels, political essays, novels, and contemporary theater productions—all of them Mahbhratas.Because of its historical and linguistic breadth, its commitment to primary sources, and its exploration of multiplicity and diversity as essential features of the Mahbhratas long life in South Asia, Many Mahbhratas constitutes a major contribution to the study of South Asian literature and offers a landmark view of the field of Mahbhrata studies. Author Biography Nell Shapiro Hawley is Preceptor in Sanskrit at Harvard University. Sohini Sarah Pillai is a PhD candidate in South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Table of Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationForewordPaula Richman1. An Introduction to the Literature of the MahbhrataNell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah PillaiPart I: The Manyness of the Sanskrit Mahbhrata2. Garbht: Murderous Rage and Collective Punishment as Thematic Elements in Vysas MahbhrataRobert Goldman3. The Invention of IrvnDavid Gitomer4. Bodies That Dont Matter: Gender, Body, and Discourse in the Narrative of SulabhSally J. Sutherland GoldmanPart II: Sanskrit Mahbhratas in Poetry and Performance5. The Remembered Self: Arjuna as Bhannal in the PañcartraNell Shapiro Hawley6. The Lord of Glory and the Lord of Men: Power and Partiality in Mghas iuplavadhaLawrence McCrea7. What Are the Goals of Life? The Vidakas Interpretation of the Pururthas in Kulaekharas SubhadrdhanañjayaSudha Gopalakrishnan8. How Do We Remember akuntal? The Mahbhrata and Klidsas Drama on the Contemporary Indian StageAmanda CulpPart III: Regional and Vernacular Mahbhratas from Premodern South Asia9. An Old Dharma in a New Age: Duryodhana and the Reframing of Epic Ethics in Rannas ShasabhmavijayaTimothy Lorndale10. Three Poets, Two Languages, One Translation: The Evolution of the Telugu MahbhratamuHarshita Mruthinti Kamath11. The Fate of Kcaka in Two Jain Apabhramsha MahbhratasEva De Clercq and Simon Winant12. The Power-Politics of Desire and Revenge: A Classical Hindi Kcakavadha Performance at the Tomar Court of GwaliorHeidi Pauwels13. Blessed Beginnings: Invoking Viu, Ka, and Rma in Two Regional MahbhratasSohini Sarah PillaiPart IV: Mahbhratas of Modern South Asia14. How to Be Political without Being Polemical: The Debate between Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore over the KacaritraAhona Panda15. The Epic and the Novel: Buddhadev Boses Modern Reading of the MahbhrataSudipta Kaviraj16. Draupad, Yjñasen, Pñcl, Ksn : Representations of an Epic Heroine in Three NovelsPamela Lothspeich17. From Excluded to Exceptional: Caste in Contemporary MahbhratasSucheta Kanjilal18. A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: The Mahbhrata as Dystopian FuturePhilip LutgendorfBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex Review "Overall, the anthology is an excellent read. It thoroughly enriches and updates the field of Mahbhrata Studies. This is a groundbreaking volume assembling a range of eminent scholarship." — Religious Studies Review Details ISBN143848240X Pages 462 Publisher State University of New York Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 143848240X ISBN-13 9781438482408 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-01-02 DEWEY 294.5923046 Series SUNY series in Hindu Studies Imprint State University of New York Press Place of Publication Albany, NY Country of Publication United States Illustrations Total Illustrations: 7 AU Release Date 2022-01-02 NZ Release Date 2022-01-02 US Release Date 2022-01-02 UK Release Date 2022-01-02 Author Sohini Sarah Pillai Edited by Sohini Sarah Pillai Alternative 9781438482415 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133897144;

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