The Ramayana Tradition in Southeast Asia
Author | : S. Singaravelu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Hindu civilization |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : S. Singaravelu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Hindu civilization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sachitanantham Singaravelu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1878 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : V. Raghavan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paula Richman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520220744 |
A wide-ranging examination of the many different versions of India's greatest epic, the Ramayana, focusing on versions that subvert the dominant readings of the work.
Author | : V. Raghavan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788126004126 |
The Book Is Consists Of The Papers Presented At The International Ramayana Seminar Hosted By The Sahitya Akademi At New Delhi In 1975, One More Proof Of How Much Still Remains Unexplored And Deserves The Close Scruting Of Discerning Scholars.
Author | : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger |
Publisher | : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0891480633 |
When the Mahabharata and Ramayana are performed in South and Southeast Asia, audiences may witness a variety of styles. A single performer may deliver a two-hour recitation, women may meet in informal singing groups, shaddow puppets may host an all-night play, or professional theaters may put on productions lasting thirty nights. Performances often celebrate ritual passages: births, deaths, marriages, and religious observances. The stories live and are transmitted through performance; their characters are well known and well loved. Yet written versions of the Mahabharata and Ramayana have existed in both South and Southeast Asia for hundreds of years. Rarely have these texts been intended for private reading. What is the relationship between written text and oral performance? What do performers and audiences mean when they identify something as “Ramayana” or “Mahabharata”? How do they conceive of texts? What are the boundaries of the texts? By analyzing specific performance traditions, Boundaries of the Text addresses questions of what happens to written texts when they are preformed and how performance traditions are affected when they interact with written texts. The dynamics of this interaction are of particular interest in South and Southeast Asia where oral performance and written traditions share a long, interwoven history. The contributors to Boundaries of the Text show the difficulty of maintaining sharp distinctions between oral and written patterns, as the traditions they consider defy a unidirectional movement from oral to written. The boundaries of epic traditions are in a state of flux, contracting or expanding as South and Southeast Asian societies respond to increasing access to modern education, print technology, and electronic media.
Author | : Parul Pandya Dhar |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2023-10-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000991962 |
This volume examines The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rāmāyaṇa studies from Cambodia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and USA, this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality, diversity, and adaptability of the Rāmāyaṇa in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts. The journey and localization of the Rāmāyaṇa is explored in its manifold expressions – from classical to folk, from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages, and from ancient to modern times. Regional Rāmāyaṇas from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed Rāmāyaṇas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the Rāmāyaṇa. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Author | : Venkatarama Raghavan |
Publisher | : New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Civilization, Hindu |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paula Richman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 052091175X |
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.
Author | : Madoka Fukuoka |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2022-11-30 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000589730 |
The ancient Indian epic poem Ramayana has been disseminated throughout large tracts of Southeast Asia since the 9th century. Versions of the epic poem have come to adopt and reflect the unique characteristics of the countries and regions where it has gained cultural currency. The epic has been a source of popular themes in both traditional and contemporary art forms, including literature, performing arts, fine arts, and films. This book showcases Ramayana theater as a platform where the multiple meanings and senses of values are negotiated. It focuses on the relationships between the cultural representation and the various meanings of Ramayana theater, as well as other dramatic art forms. Focusing on the various contemporary contexts of art performances where the epic poem has been represented, the book also presents the ideologies and moral values contained in the theatrical forms of the epic poem. It discusses various performance contexts, such as diaspora communities, production of popular content culture, cultural diplomacy, designation as intangible cultural heritage, transmission, tourism, and the representation/exhibition of culture, as well as the performance in rituals. It also includes works of three contemporary and inspiring artists: cross-gender dancer Didik Nini Thowok, animator as well as puppeteer Nanang Ananto Wicaksono, and composer Ken Steven.