Songs, Stories, Lives: Gendered Dialogues and Cultural Critique
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1st ed.
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8186706585
Length
iv+245p., Plates; 23cm.
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The essays in this volume address theoretical and ethnographic issues concerning oral traditions and women’s speech in diverse South Asian Communities in North and South India and Nepal. Grounded in an awareness of the colonial, postcolonial and academic textualizations that so often have prevented women’s speech from being heard or their silences understood, the papers work towards an interpretation of women’s expressive genres as responding critically to ...
