Refiguring Baidehīśa Bilāsa: Reading the Queer and the Erotic in Upendra Bhanja’s Rāmāyaṇa
Baidehīśa Bilāsa is a seventeenth century Odiā erotic retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa. The work is particularly pertinent today, as the political right wing in India celebrates Rāma’s abstinence and represses his conjugal life in public memory. Rāma’s leaving of Sītā for his kingdom (read the Hindu nation...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 88, Issue: 2, Pages: 569-593 |
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Upendrabhañja 1670-1720, Baidehīśa biḷāsa
/ Vālmīki, Rāmāyaṇa
/ Recounting
/ Erotic literature
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| RelBib Classification: | BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia TJ Modern history |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |