Religion in literature and film in South Asia
By: edited by Diana Dimitrova.
Contributors: Dimitrova, Diana, 1969-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780230622258
Subjects: Indic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- India; Religion in literature; Myth in literature; Religion in motion pictures; Myth in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On myth and mythologizing : an introduction / Diana Dimitrova; title: Religion, myth and gender. The spiritual quest in Amrita Bharati's poetry / Lucy Rosenstein; title: Who is Afraid of Mīrābāī : Gulzar's antidote for Meera's poison / Heidi Pauwels; title: Religion and gender in Bollywood film / Diana Dimitrova; title: The creative 'modern' and the myths of the Goddess of Poxes / Perundevi Srinivasan; title: Religion, myth and politics. Constructed communal identities and religious discourse in Gītāñjali Śrī's Hamara sahar us baras / Alessandra Consolaro; title: Dharma reconsidered : the inappropriate poetry of Arun Kolatkar / Laetitia Zecchini; title: From the otherland to the divine land : exile, mysticism and secularism in K.B. Vaid's Dard la dava / Anne Castaing; title: In the face of Lesser breeds : reading Nayantara Sahgal with Indian Christians / Clara Joseph; title: Censorship, social reform, and mythological drama in colonial India / Nandi Bhatia; title: From Kuruksetra to Ramarajya : a comparative study of the star personas of Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan / Sunny Singh.