Gender and genre in the folklore of Middle India / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Series:	Myth and poetics.
Subjects:	Folklore > India > Chhattīsgarh. Women > India > Chhattīsgarh > Folklore. Folklore > Performance. Folklore Folklore > Performance Manners and customs Women Volkscultuur. Vrouwen. Folklore > Inde > Chattisagarh (Inde) Femmes > Inde > Chattisagarh > Folklore. Festivals folkloriques > Inde. Chhattīsgarh (India) > Social life and customs. India > Chhattīsgarh Chattisagarh (Inde) > Moeurs et coutumes.
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Table of Contents:

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.

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