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Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative.

Gender and Story in South India presents exciting ethnographic research by Indian women scholars on Hindu and Muslim women-centered oral narratives. The book is unique for its geographic and linguistic focus on South India, for its inclusion of urban and rural locales of narration, and for its exploration of shared Hindu and Muslim female space. Drawing on the worldviews of South Indian female narrators in both everyday and performative settings, the contributors lead readers away from customary and comfortable assumptions about gender distinctions in India to experience a more dialogical, poetically ordered moral universe that is sensitive to women''s material and spiritual lives.

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    A Paperback / softback by Leela Prasad, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Lalita Handoo

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      Publisher: State University of New York Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2007
      ISBN13: 9780791468722, 978-0791468722
      ISBN10: 791468720

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative.

      Gender and Story in South India presents exciting ethnographic research by Indian women scholars on Hindu and Muslim women-centered oral narratives. The book is unique for its geographic and linguistic focus on South India, for its inclusion of urban and rural locales of narration, and for its exploration of shared Hindu and Muslim female space. Drawing on the worldviews of South Indian female narrators in both everyday and performative settings, the contributors lead readers away from customary and comfortable assumptions about gender distinctions in India to experience a more dialogical, poetically ordered moral universe that is sensitive to women''s material and spiritual lives.

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