Maithil Women's Tales : Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border /

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Constrained by traditions restricting their movements and speech, the Maithil women of Nepal and India have long explored individual and collective life experiences by sharing stories with one another. Coralynn V. Davis examines how these storytellers weave together their own life experiences - the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Davis, Coralynn V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women storytellers.
Storytelling > Social aspects.
Storytelling.
Maithili fiction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Conteuses > Inde.
Conteuses > Nepal.
Art de conter > Aspect social > Inde.
Art de conter > Aspect social > Nepal.
Art de conter > Inde.
Art de conter > Nepal.
Women storytellers > India.
Women storytellers > Nepal.
Maithili fiction > History and criticism.
Storytelling > Social aspects > India.
Storytelling > Social aspects > Nepal.
Storytelling > India.
Storytelling > Nepal.
Nepal.
India.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the living story and the storying of life
  • Homo Narrans and the irrepressibility of stories
  • Metaphysical questions of fortune and social stratification
  • Virtue, truth, and the motherline of morality
  • Loving compassion, maternal devotion and the yearning for home
  • Gendering spatial alterity : why the story went into the forest
  • Ponds, the feminine divine, and a shift in moral register
  • Talking tools, femina Narrans and the irrepressibility of women

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