Evil in the Mahabharata

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-947774-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Good and evil, loyalty and treachery, faith and doubt, honour and ignominy---the Mahabharata has served as a primer for codes of conduct of generations of Hindus. Over time, the epic has also fascinated those who love a tale well told. In its telling, however, the story has lost much of its richness and nuance, and the characters have become one-dimenssional cut-outs---either starkly good or irredeemably evil.

In this reinterpretation, Meena Arora nayak analyses how the values espoused in the Mahabharata came to be distorted into meagre archetypes, creating customary laws that injure society even today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arora Nayak, Meena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Über Autor(innen)

Meena Arora Nayak is Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, USA. She is the author of the books like 'In the Aftermath' (1992), 'About Daddy' (2000), and 'Endless Rain' (2006). She has also authored a children's book 'The Puffin Book of Legendary Lives' (2004). She translated 'Neela' (of the Hindi novel by Teji Grover) in the journal 'Hindi: Language, Discourse, Writing' in 2000.