Paula (Hrsg.) Richman

Performing the Ramayana Tradition

Enactment, Interpretation, and Argument

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The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent ancient Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India's arts and social norms. For centuries, people learned this narrative by watching, listening, and participating in enactments of it. The story has continued to be retold and rethought through the centuries in many of India's regional languages, such as Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali, and has provided the basis for enactments in recitation, musicalrenditions, dance, and avant-garde performances. This volume introduces non-specialists to the Ramayana's major themes and complexities, as well as to the highly nuanced terms in Indian la… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bharucha, Rustom (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-755250-6
EAN: 9780197552506
Produktnummer: 34864284
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 392 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm
Abbildungen: 25

Über den Autor

Paula Richman is William H. Danforth Professor of South Asian Religions, Emerita, at Oberlin College, in Ohio. She has edited three volumes and published more than thirty articles on the diversity of the Indian Ramayana tradition.Rustom Bharucha retired as Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Author of several books on performance, he has also worked as a dramaturg worldwide and was involved in the curation of three Ramayana Festivals at the Adishakti Theatre Laboratory in Puducherry, India.