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Widows, Pariahs, and Bayaderes
Binita Mehta
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Hardback. Raising questions of Orientalism, the book argues that it was precisely because the French lost their Indian colonies to the British in the eighteenth century that India became part of the French literary imagination. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 603.
Land of spirituality, or land of widow burning? Land of fabulous wealth, or land of dire poverty, the caste system, and untouchability? Western literature has reflected stereotypical and contradictory images of India since antiquity. For centuries, French writers have reproduced images of India such as the widow immolating herself according to the custom of sati, the pariah or untouchable, and the bayadère or temple dancer, in various forms of theatrical representations - tragedies, ballets, operas, and exhibits in world's fairs. The examination of such recurrent images of India in four French plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth through ... Read more
Land of spirituality, or land of widow burning? Land of fabulous wealth, or land of dire poverty, the caste system, and untouchability? Western literature has reflected stereotypical and contradictory images of India since antiquity. For centuries, French writers have reproduced images of India such as the widow immolating herself according to the custom of sati, the pariah or untouchable, and the bayadère or temple dancer, in various forms of theatrical representations - tragedies, ballets, operas, and exhibits in world's fairs. The examination of such recurrent images of India in four French plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481242
SKU
V9781611481242
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Ref
99-15
About Binita Mehta
Binita Mehta has a Ph.D. in French literature from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, and has most recently taught French at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from St. Xavier's College, Bombay, and an M.A. in French from the University of Georgia. She has ... Read more
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