The Multivalence of an Epic (eBook, PDF)

Retelling the Ramaya¿a in South India and Southeast Asia
Redaktion: Dhar, Parul Pandya

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines The Ramayäa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Ramayäa studies from Cambodia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and USA, this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality, diversity, and adaptability of the Ramayäa in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts.

The journey and localization of the Ramayäa is explored in its manifold expressions - from classical to folk, from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages, and from ancient to modern times. Regional Ramayäas from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed Ramayäas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the Ramayäa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000991949
• Artikelnr.: 68627256

Autorenporträt

Parul Pandya Dhar is art historian and professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. She has authored The Toräa in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture (2010), edited Indian Art History: Changing Perspectives (2011), and co-edited Temple Architecture and Imagery of South and Southeast Asia (2016), Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories (2014), and Cultural Interface of India with Asia (2004), besides contributing several research articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Acknowledgements Introduction Exploring the Epic's Multivalence: R
m
yäas in Visual, Literary, and Performance Cultures Parul Pandya Dhar I. Visual Cultures: Sculptures, Paintings, and Inscriptions 1. The R
m
yäa Retold by Sculptors and Scribes in pre-Vijayanagara Karnataka Parul Pandya Dhar 2. Stone, Wood, Paint: R
ma-Story Representations throughout Southeast Asia John Brockington 3. Looking for R
ma: Traces of the R
m
yäa in Temples of the Pallava Dynasty Valérie Gillet 4. R
m
yäa Retold in Khmer sculpture with Special Reference to the Yuddhak
a, c. 10th-12th centuries Rachel Loizeau 5. R
m
yäa Bronzes and Sculptures from the C
a to Vijayanagara Times Sharada Srinivasan 6. Mighty Messenger: Adaptation and Localization of Hanum
n and the R
m
yäa in Southeast Asia Gauri Parimoo Krishnan 7. The R
m
yäa Paintings of the M
liruñc
lai Temple: Nationalism under the Spell of Regionalism RKK Rajarajan 8. Expressions of the R
m
yäa Epic in Malaysian Arts Cheryl Thiruchelvam II. Literary Cultures: Texts, Recitation, and Associated Imagery 9. The Discourse on Governance and Ethics as a Leitmotif in the Old Javanese R
m
yäa or R
m
yäa Kakawin Malini Saran 10. Thai R
mak
en: Its Close Links with South India Chirapat Prapandvidya 11. From Kanauj to Laos: Development of the 'Floating Maiden' Episode in the Southeast Asian R
ma Tradition Mary Brockington 12. Making of a Language and the Making of a Bhakti Text: The Story of the Composition of Tun
at Ezhuttä
an's Adhy
tma R
m
yää Ki
ipp
u A J Thomas 13. Kumaran Asan's 'Cint
vi
ay
ya S
t
', S
t
, Deep in Thought, a Translation Sudha Gopalakrishnan 14. Mabasan R
m
yäa, a Continuous Retelling of the R
m
yäa in Bali Thomas M Hunter III. Performance Cultures: Theatre, Puppetry, and Folk Practices 15. Representations of R
väa in a Kathakal
Piece and a Mythological Drama Paula Richman 16. The R
m
yäa of the Malay Shadow Play, Wayang Kulit Kelantan, and its Possible Parallels and Connections with the Epic Versions in Northern Southeast Asia Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof 17. From Palace to Streets: Many R
m
yäas from the Bylanes Krishna Murthy Hanuru 18. The Making of R
m
yäa in the Yak
ag
na of Coastal Karnataka Purushottama Bilimale 19. Reamker Performance in Khmer Society Sirang Leng The Contributors Index