Saswati Sengupta

Gebundenes Buch

Mutating Goddesses

Bengal's Laukika Hinduism and Gender Rights

Beschreibung

Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities---Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi---from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation.

Autor

Saswati Sengupta has been teaching English literature at Miranda House, Delhi University, for more than thirty years. Her primary research and academic publications have been feminist interventions in the areas of myths, Hindu goddesses and their material locations, mutations and political mobilizations. Believing in, and enjoying, collective endeavour she has jointly published papers analyzing the problems of foregrounding post-colonial theories in understanding contemporary India and co-edited the anthologies Towards Freedom: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore's Ghare Baire/The Home and the World, 2007, Revisiting Kalidasa's Abhijnana-Sakuntalam: Love, Lineage and Language in Kalidasa's Nataka, 2011, and Bad Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety, forthcoming 2019. Saswati's novel, The Song Seekers (2011) was listed for DSC prize for South Asian Literatures, 2013.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 375
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190124106
• ISBN-10: 0190124105
• Artikelnr.: 60329779