Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (Myth and Poetics)

Foreword / By Gregory Nagy. -- Introduction: Region, Repertoire, And Genre. -- Soaking The Goddess, Celebrating Friendship (bhojalī) -- Brave Daughters, Bound Kings: A Female Tradition Of Reversal (Ḍālkhāī) -- Land Of Wealth, Land Of Famine: The Parrot Dance In Ritual And Narrative (suā Nāc) -- Joining Verse To Verse: Professional Storytelling And Individual Creativity (kathānī Kūhā) -- This Is Our Story: A Chhattisgarhi Epic (candainī) -- Paṇḍvānī Heroines, Chhattisgarhi Daughters (paṇḍvānī) -- Conclusion: Shifting Boundaries Of Genre And Community. -- The Song Of Subanbali. -- Kathānī Kūhā: Of Friendship, Love, And Memory. -- Sample Transcriptions Of Performance Texts. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 337-343) And Index. In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on women's rituals, she looks at the...