| Description |
xviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Early modern cultural studies |
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Early modern cultural studies.
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| Contents |
1. Overlapping Discourses: Widows, Witches, and Forms of Literary Haunting -- 2. Under Western Eyes: Sati and Witches in European Representations -- 3. Instructions for Christian Women: The Sati and European Widows -- 4. Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers -- 5. Civility and "Dying" to Speak: Sati, the Fetish, and History -- Chronological Chart of Indian Voyages of Early Modern European Travelers (cited in this book) who wrote about Sati -- Bibliography of Indian Travel Narratives cited in this book |
| Summary |
"In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widowburning, 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 widowburning 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 travelers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amid spectacular displays of "Eastern barbarity.""--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [255]-267 |
| Subject |
Women -- India -- Social conditions.
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Sati -- India.
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Widow suicide -- India.
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Women -- India -- Social conditions -- History.
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Travelers -- India -- History.
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Europeans -- India -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064883
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India -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064883 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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| LC no. |
2002068407 |
| ISBN |
1403960186 |
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