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Title Boundaries of the text : epic performances in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and Laurie J. Sears
Published Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (x, 161 pages)
Series Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia ; no. 35
Michigan papers on South and Southeast Asia ; no. 35.
Contents Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Literacy and the Epic in the Malay World -- Fluid and Fixed Texts in india -- Literacy and the Changing Concept of Text: Women's Ramayana Maṇḍalī in Central india -- Javanese Mahabharata Stories: Oral Performances and Written Texts -- Words Made Flesh: The Banaras Rāmlīlā as Epic Commentary -- Epic Transmission and adaptation: A Folk Ramayana in South india -- Palm Leaf and Performance: The Epics in Balinese theater
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities
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Subject Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa. English -- Dramatic production
SUBJECT Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa
Mahābhārata -- Dramatic production
Mahābhārata fast
Rāmāyaṇa (Vālmīki) fast
Subject Theater -- South Asia.
Theater -- Southeast Asia
Epic literature -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Epic literature
Theater
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter, editor
Sears, Laurie Jo, editor
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), issuing body.
ISBN 9780472127757
0472127756
9780472901715
0472901710