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Throughout
Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramayanas.
While most scholars continue to rely on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana as the authoritative version of the tale, the contributors to this volume do not. Their essays demonstrate the multivocal nature of the Ramayana by highlighting its variations according to historical period, political context, regional literary tradition, religious affiliation, intended audience, and genre. Socially marginal groups in
Indian society—Telugu women, for example, or Untouchables from Madhya Pradesh—have recast the Rama story to reflect their own views of the world, while in other hands the epic has become the basis for teachings about spiritual liberation or the demand for political separatism. Historians of religion, scholars of South Asia, folklorists, cultural anthropologists—all will find here refreshing perspectives on this tale.
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Karen Kuder
reviewed Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia on October 04, 2014
Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
While this book was very informative, I struggled to keep interest while working through this book. Many of the articles were a little dry and didn't seem necessary. This to me is like writing a term paper or an article on something that everyone knows. Other than the few that did that, the rest were great. I really enjoyed "The Raja's New Clothes: Redressing Ravana in Meghanadavadha Kavya" the most. I suppose with a book like this that covers a variety of topics, it makes sense to not find all of them the most interesting.
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