Revisiting Abhijñanaśākuntalam (Record no. 49430)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788125044192
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Brijwasi Book Distributors
Distributor address ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
Bill Number ;BW/004806
Bill Date ;21/05/2018
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 891.2109 SEN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Saswati Sengupta
-- ; Deepika Tandon
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Revisiting Abhijñanaśākuntalam
Remainder of title : love, lineage and language in Kālidāsa's nāṭaka
Statement of responsibility, etc /Saswati Sengupta; Deepika Tandon
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Orient Blackswan
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 327 pages
Other physical details : illustrations
Dimensions ; 23 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc K lid sa s Abhijn na kuntalam has an iconic status in the history of Indian literatures. It is a tale of love found, forgotten and restored between Duyanta, the hero king and kuntaland, an innocent maiden. Bringing together linguists, literary critics, historians, Indologists and Sanskritists. Revisiting Abhijnand and kuntalam analyses the play as more than just a figment of imagination-as a rich terrain for exploring links between culture, history and politics, as an interplay of memory, desire and languages. Divided into three sections, it focuses on the continuity as well as the change in the narrative of kuntaland , locating it in contexts of class, caste, gender, patriarchy and monarchy. The first section, The Biography of a Narrative,addresses the earliest appearance of the narrative in the epic Mahand bhand rata, its best known form Abhijnand and kuntalam as nand Oaka and William Jones Orientalist interpretation of the play. It also critically examines the varied representations of the play in diverse forms such as art, theatre and cinema. Contrary to popular perception today that kuntaland is the central protagonist of Abhijnand and kuntalam, the second section, The Hero King, addresses how and why Duyanta is posited as the hero. It examines the representation of the king as the ideal in literature and its material reality in the context of the Gupta Period, the construction of kingship in different genres and the politics of a courtly culture and patronage within which the articulation of the heroic king takes place. The control of the womb is central to the reproduction of feudal and caste patriarchies. The third section, Of Love, Marriage and Family, deconstructs the politics of romantic love, marriage and motherhood in the play. The strategies of surveillance, regulation and control of sexuality by state and society as deployed in it are the focus of this section.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature
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Genre/form data or focus term Celtic literature
Non-focus term Śakuntalā (Kālidāsa)
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Personal name Saswati Sengupta
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 29/05/2018 1100.00   891.2109 SEN 25143 29/05/2018 29/05/2018 Books

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