Women of the Kakawin World: Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and BaliRoutledge, 2015. 1. 28. - 376페이지 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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... descriptions of royal weddings represented one such area of potential interest, I devoted one chapter of my doctoral thesis to this topic. It is a reflection of shifts in both my own academic interests and those of Indonesian and ...
... descriptions of royal weddings represented one such area of potential interest, I devoted one chapter of my doctoral thesis to this topic. It is a reflection of shifts in both my own academic interests and those of Indonesian and ...
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... description of marriage and sexuality as social institutions than on the literary aspects of the kakawin genre, because the sources themselves are overwhelmingly literary I hope it will also introduce a wider audience to what is perhaps ...
... description of marriage and sexuality as social institutions than on the literary aspects of the kakawin genre, because the sources themselves are overwhelmingly literary I hope it will also introduce a wider audience to what is perhaps ...
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... descriptions of battles and conflicts, the kakawin genre evolved into a form of courtly romance in which relationships between men and women were preeminent, and the feminine, particularly in its association FRAMEWORKS 25.
... descriptions of battles and conflicts, the kakawin genre evolved into a form of courtly romance in which relationships between men and women were preeminent, and the feminine, particularly in its association FRAMEWORKS 25.
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... descriptions of the Javanese and Balinese landscape, in which poets, seeking to emulate the work of the master poets (kawiswara), describe the natural world by losing themselves entirely in the contemplation of the landscape.51 Even on ...
... descriptions of the Javanese and Balinese landscape, in which poets, seeking to emulate the work of the master poets (kawiswara), describe the natural world by losing themselves entirely in the contemplation of the landscape.51 Even on ...
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... description goes well beyond the simple physical reflection of women in nature. Extended metaphors allow women to encompass the entire landscape: the seashore, the mountains, the sky. The sweetness of a woman, for example, is comparable ...
... description goes well beyond the simple physical reflection of women in nature. Extended metaphors allow women to encompass the entire landscape: the seashore, the mountains, the sky. The sweetness of a woman, for example, is comparable ...
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Life at Court | 44 |
Courtship and Betrothal | 88 |
The Ceremonies of Marriage | 133 |
Kakawin Sexuality | 172 |
Death and Loyalty | 210 |
7 The Poetics of Control | 245 |
Textual Sources | 251 |
Glossary | 271 |
Notes | 279 |
Bibliography | 323 |
Index | 335 |
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