Sita's Ramayana

Samhita Arni & Moyna Chit (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2018
Tara Books (Verlag)
978-93-80340-03-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Sita's Ramayana shifts the point of view of the Ramayana - the saga of a heroic war - to bring a woman's perspective to this timeless epic. Narrated by the heroine Sita, it is a powerful meditation on the fate of women, as they become pawns in the wars between men and kingdoms. But Sita is not just a patient victim of events - she endures her fate with fortitude, until the moment she decides to challenge it. The book unites two women from very different backgrounds: young urban writer Samhita Arni collaborates with Patua scroll artist Moyna Chitrakar. To read the Tara blog about the making of Sita click here

Autor

Samhita Arni was Tara's youngest author - they published her version of the great epic Mahabharatha in 1996, when she was 12. The book, which she wrote and illustrated, has been published in seven languages. She has since studied film and religion at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, US, and is currently working with a Pakistani woman filmmaker. Moyna and Joydeb Chitrakar are performers and artists from the Patua scroll painting tradition of West Bengal. To watch a video of Moyna Chitrakar performing from the Ramayana scroll which inspired the book click here

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2018
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations
• Verlagsort: Chennai
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 300 g
• Einbandart: gebunden
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• ISBN-10: 93-80340-03-6 / 9380340036
• ISBN-13: 978-93-80340-03-6 / 9789380340036
• Zustand: Neuware