Author: Richman, Paula; editor:
Title: Questioning Ramayanas : A South Asian Tradition
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xx,432 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 16 papers. Includes: P. Richman "Questioning & Multiplicity Within the Ramayana Tradition"; L. Hess "Lovers' Doubts: Questioning the Tulsi Ramayana"; D. Shulman "Bhavabhuti on Cruelty & Compassion"; V. Aklujkar "Crying Dogs & Laughing Trees in Rama's Kingdom: Self-Reflexivty in Ananda Ramayana"; R.P. Goldman "Ravana's Kitchen: A Testimony of Desire & the Other"; P. Lutgendorf "Dining Out at Lake Pampa: The Shabari Episode in Multiple Ramayana"; U. Nilsson ""Grinding Millet but Singing of Sita': Power & Domination in Awadhi & Bhojpuri Women's Songs"; V.N. Rao "The Politics of Telugu Ramayana: Colonialism, Print Culture, & Literary Movements"; R. Freeman "Thereupon Hangs a Tail: The Deification of Vali in the Teryyam Worship of Malabar"; S.J.S. Goldman "The Voice of Sita in Valmiki's Sundarakanda"; B. Agarwal "Two Poems on Sita"; T.K. Stewart & E. C. Dimock "Krttibasa's Apophatic Critique of Rama's Kingship"; V. Narayanan "The Ramayana & Its Muslim Interpreters"; M. Kishwar "Yes to Sita, No to Ram: The Continuing Hold of Sita on Popular Imagination in India"; P. Richman "The Ramila Migrates to Southall"; J. Kelly "Fiji's Fifth Veda: Exile, Sanatan Dharm, & Countercolonial Initiatives in Diaspora"; Appendix.

Keywords: History of Religion, Ramayana, Hindu Literature, Hinduism, Literary Criticism, India, South Asia, Ram Rama, Comparative