Many Mahabharatas

Description: Contents: Foreword by Paula Richman. 1. An Introduction to the Literature of the Mahabharata by Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai. Part I: The Manyness of the Sanskrit Mahabharata. 2. A Garbhat: Murderous Rage and Collective Punishment as Thematic Elements in Vyasa's Mahabharata by Robert Goldman. 3. The Invention of Iravan by David Gitomer. 4. Bodies That Don't Matter: Gender, Body, and Discourse in the Narrative of Sulabha by Sally J. Sutherland Goldman. Part II: Sanskrit Mahabharatas in Poetry and Performance. 5. The Remembered Self: Arjuna as Bṛhannala in the Pancaratra by Nell Shapiro Hawley. 6. The Lord of Glory and the Lord of Men: Power and Partiality in Magha's Sisupalavadha by Lawrence McCrea. 7. What Are the Goals of Life? The Viduṣaka's Interpretation of the Purusarthas in Kulasekhara's Subhadradhananjaya by Sudha Gopalakrishnan. 8. How Do We Remember Sakuntala? The Mahabharata and Kalidasa's Drama on the Contemporary Indian Stage by Amanda Culp. Part III: Regional and Vernacular Mahabharatas from Premodern South Asia. 9. An Old Dharma in a New Age: Duryodhana and the Reframing of Epic Ethics in Ranna's Sahasabhimavijaya by Timothy Lorndale. 10. Three Poets, Two Languages, One Translation: The Evolution of the Telugu Mahabharatamu by Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. 11. The Fate of Kicaka in Two Jain Apabhramsha Mahabharatas by Eva De Clercq and Simon Winant. 12. The Power-Politics of Desire and Revenge: A Classical Hindi Kicakavadha Performance at the Tomar Court of Gwalior by Heidi Pauwels. 13. Blessed Beginnings: Invoking Visnu, Krsna and Rama in Two Regional Mahabharatas by Sohini Sarah Pillai. Part IV: Mahiabharatas of Modern South Asia. 14. How to Be Political without Being Polemical: The Debate between Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore over the Krsnacaritra by Abona Panda. 15. The Epic and the Novel: Buddhadev Bose’s Modern Reading of the Mahibhirata by Sudipta Kaviraj. 16. Draupadi, Yajnaseni, Pafcali, Krsna: Representations of an Epic Heroine in Three Novels by Pamela Lothspeich. 17. From Excluded to Exceptional: Caste in Contemporary Mahabharatas by Sucheta Kanjilal. 17. A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: The Mahabharata as Dystopian Future by Philip Lutgendorf. Bibliography. Index.Many Mahabharatas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahabharata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahabharata, an early epic poem that narrates the events of a catastrophic fratricidal war. Along the way, it draws in nearly everything else in Hindu mythology, philosophy, and story literature. The magnitude of its scope and the relentless complexity of its worldview primed the Mahabharata for uncountable telling’s in South Asia and beyond. For two thousand years, the instinctive approach to the Mahabharata has been not to consume it but to create it anew.The many Mahabharatas of this book come from the first century to the twenty-first. They are composed in nine different languages—Apabhramsha, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu. Early chapters illuminate themes of retelling within the Sanskrit Mahabharata itself, demonstrating that the story’s propensity for regeneration emerges from within. The majority of the book, however, reaches far beyond the Sanskrit epic. Readers dive into classical dramas, premodern vernacular poems, regional performance traditions, commentaries, graphic novels, political essays, novels and contemporary theater productions—all of them Mahabharatas. Because of its historical and linguistic breadth, its commitment to primary sources, and its exploration of multiplicity and diversity as essential features of the Mahabharata’s long life in South Asia, Many Mahabharatas constitutes a major contribution to the study of South Asian literature and offers a landmark view of the field of Mahabharata studies.

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