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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781403960184
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Travel, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Burning Women : Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies, Asia / India & South Asia, Modern / General, Semiotics & Theory
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Series
- Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700 Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Features
- Revised
- Item Weight
- 18.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- Xviii, 278 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
1403960186
ISBN-13
9781403960184
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2235418
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
Xviii, 278 Pages
Publication Name
Burning Women : Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India
Language
English
Subject
General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies, Asia / India & South Asia, Modern / General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
2003
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Travel, Social Science
Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700 Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-068407
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Burning Women makes an important contribution to the fields of early modern studies, post-colonial theory, and gender studies. Banerjee's approach is novel and innovative--one that reveals the Eurocentric limits of the existing early modern archive. Her analysis of the overlapping discourses of Hindu widow burning and European witchburning and ideologies of wifely conduct within European representations offers a fresh and original perspective on the ideological struggles of the period." --Jyotsna G. Singh, Michigan State University "This lucid and engaging study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century European accounts of widow-burning in India begins by asking a provocative question: why did these writers fail to connect widowburning in India with witch-burning in Europe? Taking this silence as a starting point for her probing analysis, Pompa Banerjee traces the diverse cultural assumptions that made it possible for Europeans to read the spectacle of widowburning as the product of an alien, possibly devil-worshipping culture and as a compelling display of heroic self-sacrifice. Burning Women introduces the reader to a rich array of fascinating materials and expands our notions of the boundaries of early modern studies." --Deborah Willis, University of California, Riverside, "Burning Womenmakes an important contribution to the fields of early modern studies, post-colonial theory, and gender studies. Banerjee's approach is novel and innovative--one that reveals the Eurocentric limits of the existing early modern archive. Her analysis of the overlapping discourses of Hindu widow burning and European witchburning and ideologies of wifely conduct within European representations offers a fresh and original perspective on the ideological struggles of the period." --Jyotsna G. Singh, Michigan State University "This lucid and engaging study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century European accounts of widow-burning in India begins by asking a provocative question: why did these writers fail to connect widowburning in India with witch-burning in Europe? Taking this silence as a starting point for her probing analysis, Pompa Banerjee traces the diverse cultural assumptions that made it possible for Europeans to read the spectacle of widowburning as the product of an alien, possibly devil-worshipping culture and as a compelling display of heroic self-sacrifice.Burning Womenintroduces the reader to a rich array of fascinating materials and expands our notions of the boundaries of early modern studies." --Deborah Willis, University of California, Riverside, 'Overall this is an impressive book which synthesizes disparate narratives of discovery, morality, and gender differentiation to illuminate the role of women in early modern culture.' - Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
393/.9/0954
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
Introduction Renaissance Crossings; Widows, Witches, and Forms of Literary Haunting Under Western Eyes: Sati and Witches in European Representations Instructions for Christian Women: The Sati and European Widows Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers Civility and "dying" to Speak: the Sati, Fetish, and History
Synopsis
In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of 'Eastern barbarity'.
LC Classification Number
PN715-749
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