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The Multivalence of an Epic

Retelling the R?m?ya?a in South India and Southeast Asia
 
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Short description:

This volume examines The R?m?ya?a traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed R?m?ya?as.

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This volume examines The R?m?ya?a traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in R?m?ya?a studies from Cambodia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and USA, this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality, diversity, and adaptability of the R?m?ya?a in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts.


The journey and localization of the R?m?ya?a is explored in its manifold expressions ? from classical to folk, from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages, and from ancient to modern times. Regional R?m?ya?as from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed R?m?ya?as. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the R?m?ya?a.


 

Table of Contents:

Prologue


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Exploring the Epic?s Multivalence: R?m?ya?as in Visual, Literary, and Performance Cultures


Parul Pandya Dhar


I. Visual Cultures: Sculptures, Paintings, and Inscriptions


1. The R?m?ya?a Retold by Sculptors and Scribes in pre-Vijayanagara Karnataka


Parul Pandya Dhar


2. Stone, Wood, Paint: R?ma-Story Representations throughout Southeast Asia


John Brockington


3. Looking for R?ma: Traces of the R?m?ya?a in Temples of the Pallava Dynasty


Valérie Gillet


4. R?m?ya?a Retold in Khmer sculpture with Special Reference to the Yuddhak???a, c. 10th-12th centuries


Rachel Loizeau


5. R?m?ya?a Bronzes and Sculptures from the C??a to Vijayanagara Times


Sharada Srinivasan


6. Mighty Messenger: Adaptation and Localization of Hanum?n and the R?m?ya?a in Southeast Asia


Gauri Parimoo Krishnan


7. The R?m?ya?a Paintings of the M?liru?c?lai Temple: Nationalism under the Spell of Regionalism


RKK Rajarajan


8. Expressions of the R?m?ya?a Epic in Malaysian Arts


Cheryl Thiruchelvam


II. Literary Cultures: Texts, Recitation, and Associated Imagery


9. The Discourse on Governance and Ethics as a Leitmotif in the Old Javanese R?m?ya?a or R?m?ya?a Kakawin


Malini Saran


10. Thai R?mak?en: Its Close Links with South India


Chirapat Prapandvidya


11. From Kanauj to Laos: Development of the ?Floating Maiden? Episode in the Southeast Asian R?ma Tradition


Mary Brockington


12. Making of a Language and the Making of a Bhakti Text: The Story of the Composition of Tunćat Ezhuttaććan?s Adhy?tma R?m?ya?a? Ki?ipp???u


A J Thomas


13. Kumaran Asan?s ?Cint?vi??ay?ya S?t??, S?t?, Deep in Thought, a Translation


Sudha Gopalakrishnan


14. Mabasan R?m?ya?a, a Continuous Retelling of the R?m?ya?a in Bali


Thomas M Hunter


III. Performance Cultures: Theatre, Puppetry, and Folk Practices


15. Representations of R?va?a in a Kathakal? Piece and a Mythological Drama


Paula Richman


16. The R?m?ya?a of the Malay Shadow Play, Wayang Kulit Kelantan, and its Possible Parallels and Connections with the Epic Versions in Northern Southeast Asia


Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof


17. From Palace to Streets: Many R?m?ya?as from the Bylanes


Krishna Murthy Hanuru


18. The Making of R?m?ya?a in the Yak?ag?na of Coastal Karnataka


Purushottama Bilimale


19. Reamker Performance in Khmer Society


Sirang Leng


The Contributors


Index