Voyages of body and soul
Subtitle: selected female icons of India and beyond
By: edited by Ketu H. Katrak, and Anita R. Ratnam
Contributors: Raj, Anita Ratnam
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781443856447
Subjects: Women; History; Women poets; Indic Poets
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Mad and divine female saint-poets of India and beyond --; title: Institutionalizing identity through divinity : female saint poets of Maharashtra  -- Madhavi Narsalay; title: Āṇṭāḷ of a thousand names : Viṣṇu's beloved mediator  -- Archana Venkatesan; title: Translating the autobiography of a goddess  -- Priya Sarukkai Chabria; title: From melody queen to Muslim madonna : Pakistani female singers transcending the secular/sacred divide  -- Fawzia Afzal-Khan; title: Meerabai and St. Teresa of Avila : lives in parallel worlds  -- Nirupama Vaidyanathan -- Part II.; title: Performing artists' process/choreographic notes : mad and divine mystic saint-poets of India --; title: Darshan : seeing  -- Malavika Sarukkai; title: Aditi Mangaldas  -- interviewed by Nirupama Vaidyanathan; title: Like camphor on fire  -- Madhu Nataraj; title: Aikya : in the voice of Akka Mahadevi  -- Mythili Prakash; title: Soulful Abhangs and thoughtful Vaakhs  -- Rama Vaidyanathan -- Part III.; title: Epic women of India and beyond ---- A.; title: Female icons of India's ancient epics re-visited --; title: The living heroines of Indian myths and legends  -- Prema Nandakumar; title: Womanity : a psychic continuum of selfhood and tenacity, keynotes of Sañgam women  -- Swarnamalya Ganesh; title: The places and spaces inhabited by Sita : freedom and captivity  -- Veenapani Chawla; title: On Sita parityagam : the abandonment of Sita  -- Kapila Venu -- B.; title: Epic women of Indian dance : T. Balasaraswati, Rukmini Devi, Chandralekha, Indrani Rahman and Mrinalini Saraghai --; title: Remembering my teacher : T. Balasaraswati  -- Nandini Ramani; title: Remembering Rukmini Devi  -- Katherine Siebel Kunhiraman; title: The honest body : remembering Chandralekha  -- Padmini Chettur; title: My mother Indrani Rahman  -- Sukanya Rahman; title: Mrinalini Sarabhai : cosmopolitan patriot and epic woman  -- Andree Grau -- C.; title: Dark women of epics and dramatic literature --; title: Magical connections among women with passions of epic proportions : Medea, Lady Macbeth, Surpanakha ; title: Ketu H. Katrak -- D.; title: Epic women in politics --; title: Epic women in politics  -- Ammu Joseph -- E.; title: Feminist evaluations of epic women --; title: The power of performance and human agency : re-assessing feminist evaluations of epic women  -- Kalpana Ram -- Part IV.; title: Performing artists' process/choreographic notes : epic women of India and beyond --; title: Eleni of Sparta : an Indo-Greek re-telling  -- Rajika Puri; title: The good wife : Arnaea & Arundhati from Sthreedom : Notices on an immaculate conception  -- Chitra Sundaram; title: Golden peacock : on Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi  -- Anusha Subramanyam; title: On Kaanhopatra & Mata Hidimba  -- Rajashree Shirke; title: Pulambal : anguished voice  -- Lakshmi Vishwanthan; title: In the spirit of Frida -- Kalpana Raghuraman.