
Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Part I: Gender: Voices and Lives
- 1. Toward a Counter-System: Women's Tales
- 2. Gender and Verbal Performance Style in Afghanistan
- 3. The Role of Suffering in Women's Performance of Paxto
- 4. Gender and Illusion in a Rajasthani Yogic Tradition
- 5. Kin Songs
- Part II: Genres: Identification and Identity
- 6. Genre and Community in the Folklore System of Chhattisgarh
- 7. Why Does Ram Swarup Sing? Song and Speech in the North Indian Epic ?hola
- 8. Wandering Lost: A Landless Laborer's Sense of Place and Self
- 9. The Cosmogonic Riddles of Lalan Fakir
- 10. Footpath Poets of Peshawar
- Part III: Tradition: Persistence and Divergence
- 11. The Popularization and Transformation of the Light-Classical Urdu Ghazal-Song
- 12. Aesthetics, Performance, and the Enactment of Tradition in a Fiji Indian Community
- 13. Hanging in the Balance: Rama in the Shadow Puppet Theater of Kerala
- 14. The Folklore of Draupadi: Saris and Hair
- 15. The Powers of Parody in Nayaka-Period Tanjavur
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
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