ISBN 9789810859718
Publisher: ACM
Paperback: 230 pages
Pub Date: Jul 2010
S$70.00 |
Ramayana in Focus: Visual and Performing Arts of Asia
Contents
Acknowledgements 10
Note on Transliteration 11
Introduction
Gauri Parimoo Krishnan 12
Ramayana Text
Sanskrit Ramayanas, Puranas and Rama Kavyas:
A Study in Evolution and Impact
Mandakranta Bose 18
The Story of Prince Rama in Japan:
Sources and Transformations
Fabio Rambelli 28
The Advent and Study of Ramayana in China
Zhang Xing 38
Representation of Ramayana Characters in Visual Traditions: A Special Focus
Rama the Perfect Man: Whatever Your Faith
John and Mary Brockington 48
Looking at Ravana:
Images of Rama’s Foe in Visual Art and Performance
Paula Richman 60
Voices of the Ramayana Women:
The Snare, Old Hag or the Damsel in Distress?
Gauri Parimoo Krishnan 70
Tataka, Shurpanakha and Kabandha:
The Forest Runners of the Ramayana 5th-13th Centuries
Rachel Loizeau 80
Representation of Ramayana in Visual Traditions: A Rereading
A Rare Set of Pahari Paintings based on the Ramacharita Manasa in the Baroda Museum
and Picture Gallery, India
Ratan Parimoo 92
Ramayana and Related Imagery in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Stephen Markel 102
Embroidered Ramayana Episodes on Kantha Textiles from Bengal
Pika Ghosh 112
Dundubhi (Torapi) in Ramayana narratives
Vittorio Roveda 122
Representation of Ramayana in Performing Traditions: A Review of Practice
Ramayana in the Malaysian Wayang Kulit Siam
Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof 134
Ramayana: The Roles of the Great Epic in Visual and Performing Arts of Bali
I Made Bandem 144
Recycling Rama:
The Ramayana and Symbols in Puppetry and Masks of West Java
Kathy Foley 156
20th Century Rediscovery of Asian Universalism: Rabindranath Tagore's Interpretation of the Epics
Sugata Bose 166
20th Century Interpretation of the Ramayana in Indian Dance: Rukmini Devi and Shanti Bardhan
Kapila Vatsyayan 174
Ramayana and Contemporary Culture in Asia
Ramayana Remix:
Two Hindi Film-Songs As Epic Commentary
Philip Lutgendorf 184
The Fatal Crossing:
Sita’s Abduction in Valmiki’s, Tulsidas’ and the Televised Ramayan
Heidi Pauwels 196
Reconfiguring the Feminine:
The Real, Reel, and Riel Life of Neang Seda
Julie Mehta 204
The Ramayana in Southeast Asia:
Fostering Regionalism or the State?
Marshall Clark 216
Scholars Biodata 226
Contributors 228
Index 230 |
