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Tilattavissa olevat kirjat: Transgressing Boundaries
Kirjan nimi: Transgressing Boundaries
Alaotsikko: The Songs of Shenkottai Avudai Akkal
Tekijä: Kanchana Natarajan
Sivumäärä: 361
Kieli:  Englanti
Kääntäjä: Kanchana Natarajan
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2012
ISBN: 978938101716
Hinta: 25.00 €
Sidosasu: Sidottu
Sisällön kuvaus:
Shenkottai Sri Avudai Akkal, a remarkable eighteenth-century woman saint from TamilNadu, was a self-realised advaitin who sangpassionately about the ecstasy of spiritual unio nwith the Absolute. A desolate and stigmatisedBrahmin child-widow, she was initiated intoVedanta by the great master TiruvisainallurShridhara Venkatesa Ayyawal. Her songs, a radicalelision of the metaphysical sublime and personaldevotion, are narrated through existential tropessourced from daily life, and also offer a powerfulcritique of the oppressive orthodox socio-religiouspractices of that period.Composed in simple, colloquial Tamil, andbringing hope and solace to women in general andwidows in particular for almost three centuries,these songs by Avudai Akkal were preservedwithin the oral tradition by Brahmin womenof Tirunellveli district who sang them on alloccasions. The songs were documented in thenineteenth and twentieth centuries and haveappeared in many Tamil publications. Theyappear in English translation for the first timein this book. Each song is accompanied byannotations and themed essays. Pb. Zubaan books
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