Women of the Kakawin World: Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and BaliM.E. Sharpe, 2004 - 357페이지 In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For more than a millennium, the poets of the Indic courts of Java and Bali composed epic kakawin poems in which they recreated the court environment where they and their royal patrons lived. Major themes in this poetry form include war, love, and marriage. It is a rich source for the cultural and social history of Indonesia. Still being produced in Bali today, kakawin remain of interest and relevance to Balinese cultural and religious identities. This book draws on the epic kakawin poetry tradition to examine the institutions of courtship and marriage in the Indic courts. Its primary purpose is to explore the experiences of women belonging to the kakawin world, although the texts by nature reveal more about the discourses concerning women, sexuality, and gender than of the historical experiences of individual women. For over a thousand years these royal courts were major patrons of the arts. The court-sponsored epic works that have survived provide an ongoing literary testimony to the cultural and social concerns of court society from its ealiest recorded history until its demise at the end of the nineteenth century. This study examines the idealized images of women and sexuality that have pervaded Javanese and Balinese culture and provides insights into a number of cultural practices such as sati or bela (self-immolation of widows). |
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... poems in which lovers give vent to their feelings in verse . Delivered to an appre- hensive or displeased young ... poems containing declarations of love . Occasionally a lover will persuade his beloved to flee with him if he finds her ...
... poems in which lovers give vent to their feelings in verse . Delivered to an appre- hensive or displeased young ... poems containing declarations of love . Occasionally a lover will persuade his beloved to flee with him if he finds her ...
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... poems . More important , these scenes were powerful evocations of wifely duty that allowed poets to extol the val ... poem , Ghatotkaca to the Rescue . Another heroine who has no clearly defined role in the text other than to follow her ...
... poems . More important , these scenes were powerful evocations of wifely duty that allowed poets to extol the val ... poem , Ghatotkaca to the Rescue . Another heroine who has no clearly defined role in the text other than to follow her ...
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... poems , short verses writ- ten in Sanskrit meters . Like the long epic poems used in this study , they are also termed kakawin but differ from the long epic court poems of the same name . Mastery of this lyric love verse in kakawin ...
... poems , short verses writ- ten in Sanskrit meters . Like the long epic poems used in this study , they are also termed kakawin but differ from the long epic court poems of the same name . Mastery of this lyric love verse in kakawin ...
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