The Mahabharata Patriline
Brodbeck, Simon Pearse:
The Mahabharata Patriline : Gender, Culture, and the Royal Hereditary / Simon Pearse Brodbeck. - Farnham, Surrey [u.a.] : Ashgate Publishing, 2009. - 329 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6787-2
£ 55,00
DDC: 294.5923048
-- Angekündigt für Oktober 2009 --
Beschreibung
The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic – perhaps the classic – of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline – a family tree that is also a list of kings. Brodbeck explores the importance and implications of patrilineal maintenance within the royal culture depicted by the text, and shows how patrilineal memory comes up against the fact that in every generation a wife must be involved, with the consequent danger that the children might not sustain the memorial tradition of their paternal family.
The Mahabharata Patriline bridges a gap in text-critical methodology between the traditional philological approach and more recent trends in gender and literary theory. Studying the Mahabharata as an integral literary unit and as a story stretched over dozens of generations, this book casts particular light on the events of the more recent generations and suggests that the text's internal narrators are members of the family whose story they tell. [Verlagsinformation]
Inhalt
Preface
PART 1: A ROYAL PATRILINEAL MODEL
1. Analogical deceptions
2. Wide shots
3. The Mahābhārata patriline
4. Sraddha in the Mahābhārata
5. Marriage and the heir
6. The royal hunt
PART 2: THE DISTANT ANCESTRY
7. Female links
8. Yayati
9. The Paurava stretch
10. Duhsanta, Sakuntala and the Bharatas
11. Samvarana
12. Kuru
PART 3: THE PANDAVAS AND THEIR PROXIMATE ANCESTRY
13. Samtanu and Bhisma
14. Dhritarastra and Pandu
15. The Pandavas
PART 4: JANAMEJAYA AND THE SARPASATRA
16. Pariksit
17. Janamejaya
18. Conclusion
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.
Autor
SIMON BRODBECK was educated at the universities of Cambridge and London. He has worked as a lecturer (University of Edinburgh, 2002–4), as a researcher (SOAS, University of London, 2004–7), and as a translator (Clay Sanskrit Library, 2007–8). He is currently a researcher and lecturer at Cardiff University. Previous publications include Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata, Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black (eds), Routledge, 2007. Profile page.
Quellen: Ashgate; Amazon; WorldCat; Mitteilung von S. Brodbeck in der Mailing-Liste "Indology", 15. 10. 2009.
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