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Society with Indian characteristics: caste, class, and species in contemporary retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa
| dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, João Pedro | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-09T08:52:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-09T08:52:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-12-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper analyzes the construction of Indian society in retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa published in India between 2010 and 2020. I focus on the concepts of caste, class, and mythological species. Through discourse analysis of a corpus of retellings, nonfiction works by the same authors, and comparisons with secondary literature, I show how specific castes, classes, and species are assimilated to one another and contrasted with competing identities. I also show how such representations define positive traits of Indianness and contrast them with the opposite negative traits of Otherness. I conclude that, despite differences in style, the retellers imagine an ancient pre-colonial India imbued with the modern neoliberal values of freedom of choice and social mobility. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s42240-024-00167-y | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.eid | 85187915747 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2522-0926 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/44477 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Caste | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Class | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Deva | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Rākṣasa | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Rāmāyaṇa | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Society with Indian characteristics: caste, class, and species in contemporary retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 297 | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 3 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 279 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Journal of Dharma Studies | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 7 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |