MULTIVALENCE OF AN EPIC retelling the ramayana in south india and Southeast Asia

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MULTIVALENCE OF AN EPIC retelling the ramayana in south india and Southeast Asia / edited by Parul Pandya Dhar.

ISBN

1000991946

1000991962

1003456790

9781000991949

9781000991963

9781003456797

103259912X

9781032599120

Published

[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2023.

Physical Description

1 online resource

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Biographical / Historical Note

Parul Pandya Dhar is art historian and professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. She has authored The Toraṇa 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.

Summary

This volume examines The Rmyaa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rmyaa 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 Rmyaa in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts. The journey and localization of the Rmyaa 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 Rmyaas 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 Rmyaas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the Rmyaa. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

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Language

English

Added to Catalog

August 07, 2024

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

PrologueAcknowledgementsIntroductionExploring the Epic's Multivalence: Rāmāyaṇas in Visual, Literary, and Performance CulturesParul Pandya DharI. Visual Cultures: Sculptures, Paintings, and Inscriptions1. The Rāmāyaṇa Retold by Sculptors and Scribes in pre-Vijayanagara KarnatakaParul Pandya Dhar2. Stone, Wood, Paint: Rāma-Story Representations throughout Southeast AsiaJohn Brockington3. Looking for Rāma: Traces of the Rāmāyaṇa in Temples of the Pallava DynastyValérie Gillet4. Rāmāyaṇa Retold in Khmer sculpture with Special Reference to the Yuddhakāṇḍa, c. 10th-12th centuriesRachel Loizeau5. Rāmāyaṇa Bronzes and Sculptures from the Cōḻa to Vijayanagara TimesSharada Srinivasan6. Mighty Messenger: Adaptation and Localization of Hanumān and the Rāmāyaṇa in Southeast AsiaGauri Parimoo Krishnan7. The Rāmāyaṇa Paintings of the Māliruñcōlai Temple: Nationalism under the Spell of RegionalismRKK Rajarajan8. Expressions of the Rāmāyaṇa Epic in Malaysian ArtsCheryl ThiruchelvamII. Literary Cultures: Texts, Recitation, and Associated Imagery9. The Discourse on Governance and Ethics as a Leitmotif in the Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa or Rāmāyaṇa KakawinMalini Saran10. Thai Rāmakīen: Its Close Links with South IndiaChirapat Prapandvidya11. From Kanauj to Laos: Development of the 'Floating Maiden' Episode in the Southeast Asian Rāma TraditionMary Brockington12. Making of a Language and the Making of a Bhakti Text: The Story of the Composition of Tunćat Ezhuttaććan's Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇaṃ KiḷippāṭṭuA J Thomas13. Kumaran Asan's 'Cintāviṣṭayāya Sītā', Sītā, Deep in Thought, a TranslationSudha Gopalakrishnan14. Mabasan Rāmāyaṇa, a Continuous Retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa in BaliThomas M HunterIII. Performance Cultures: Theatre, Puppetry, and Folk Practices15. Representations of Rāvaṇa in a Kathakalī Piece and a Mythological DramaPaula Richman16. The Rāmāyaṇa of the Malay Shadow Play, Wayang Kulit Kelantan, and its Possible Parallels and Connections with the Epic Versions in Northern Southeast AsiaGhulam-Sarwar Yousof17. From Palace to Streets: Many Rāmāyaṇas from the BylanesKrishna Murthy Hanuru18. The Making of Rāmāyaṇa in the Yakṣagāna of Coastal KarnatakaPurushottama Bilimale19.

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Subjects

Rāma (Hindu deity) > Art.

Rāma (Hindu deity) > Cult > India, South.

Rāma (Hindu deity) > Cult > Southeast Asia.

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.

Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa > Adaptations.

Arts, Indic.

Arts, Indic > India, South.

Arts, Southeast Asian.

Performing arts > India, South.

Performing arts > Southeast Asia.

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