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...

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Main Author: Katrak, Ketu H.
Other Authors: Ratnam, Anita R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (220 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443861151
1443861154
1306859085
9781306859080

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