Plunging the ocean : courts, castes, and courtesans in the Kathāsaritsāgara
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Primus books 2017Description: x, 333 pISBN: 9789384082864 (hardback)Subject(s): Kathāsaritsāgara (Somadeva Bhaṭṭa)DDC classification: 891.209 Summary: Plunging the Ocean engages with the voluminous content of the Kathāsaritsāgara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locating the various points of its retelling. The volume weaves gender as the discursive mesh with various themes such as caste, class, upations, control and flow of resources or wealth, religious practices, sexuality and power structures to highlight the discourse of the text itself.
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Revision of the Ph. D. thesis of the author (April 2010).
Plunging the Ocean engages with the voluminous content of the Kathāsaritsāgara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locating the various points of its retelling. The volume weaves gender as the discursive mesh with various themes such as caste, class, upations, control and flow of resources or wealth, religious practices, sexuality and power structures to highlight the discourse of the text itself.
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