Footnote:
"This book is a result of the enthusiasm encountered when organizing a "Many Mahābhāratas" symposium as part of the Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison in October 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
Foreword / Paula Richman -- An introduction to the literature of the Mahābhārata / Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai -- The manyness of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata -- Ā Garbhāt : murderous rage and collective punishment as thematic elements in Vyāsa's Mahābhārata / Robert Goldman -- The invention of Irāvan / David Gitomer -- Bodies that don't matter : gender, body, and discourse in the narrative of Sulabhā / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman -- Sanskrit Mahābhāratas in poetry and performance. The remembered self : Arjuna as Bṛhannalā in the Pañcarātra / Nell Shapiro Hawley -- The lord of glory and the lord of men : power and partiality in Māgha's Śiśupālavadha / Lawrence McCrea -- What are the goals of life? The Vidūṣaka's interpretation of the Puruṣārthas in Kulaśekhara's Subhadrādhanañjaya / Sudha Gopalakrishnan -- How do you solve a problem like Śakuntalā? Considering alternative endings to Kālidāsa's drama on the contemporary Indian stage / Amanda Culp -- Regional and vernacular Mahābhāratas from premodern South Asia. An old dharma in a new age : Duryodhana and the reframing of epic ethics in Ranna's Sāhasabhīmavijaya / Timothy Lorndale -- Three poets, two languages, one translation : the evolution of the Telugu Mahābhāratamu / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath -- The fate of Kīcaka in two Jain Apabhramsha Mahābhāratas / Eva De Clercq and Simon Winant -- The power-politics of desire and revenge : a classical Hindi Kīcakavadha performance at the Tomar Court of Gwalior / Heidi Pauwels -- Blessed beginnings : invoking Viṣṇu in two regional Mahābhārata Retellings / Sohini Sarah Pillai -- Mahābhāratas of modern South Asia -- How to be political without being polemical : the debate between Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore over the Kṛṣṇacaritra / Ahona Panda -- The epic and the novel : Buddhadev Bose's modern reading of the Mahābhārata / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Many Draupadīs : representations of an epic heroine in three novels / Pamela Lothspeich -- From excluded to exceptional : caste in contemporary Mahābhāratas / Sucheta Kanjilal -- A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away : the Mahābhārata as dystopian future / Philip Lutgendorf.
"An introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia"--