Voyages of Body and Soul : Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond.
Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of ""Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets"" and ""Epic Women of India and Beyo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of ""Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets"" and ""Epic Women of India and Beyond."" The contributors explore the tendency of patriarchal societies to label exceptional saint-poets yearning for the divine as ""mad"" because of their resistance to normative and acceptable female behavior. Scholars and performers jour ... |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781443861151 1443861154 1306859085 9781306859080 |