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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davis, Coralynn V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Storytelling > Nepal.
Storytelling > India.
Storytelling > Social aspects > Nepal.
Storytelling > Social aspects > India.
Maithili fiction > History and criticism.
Women storytellers > Nepal.
Women storytellers > India.
Art de conter > Népal.
Art de conter > Inde.
Art de conter > Aspect social > Népal.
Art de conter > Aspect social > Inde.
Conteuses > Népal.
Conteuses > Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Maithili fiction
Storytelling
Storytelling > Social aspects
Women storytellers
India
Nepal
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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