Three Bhakti Voices
Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Times and Ours
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 17 March 2005
- ISBN 9780195670851
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 225x145x27 mm
- Weight 671 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This collection of essays written over two decades focuses on the literature of Bhakti as a whole as well as considers the main Bhakti poets individually - Mirabai, Surdas and Kabir.
MoreLong description:
The book is a collection of essays written over two decades but with consistency of style, concern and argument. It's divided into two parts: The first, "The Bhakti Poet Saint: Economies of Word and Life" ranges over the literature of Bhakti as a whole. The second part is organized around individual poets: Mira, Sur, and Kabir. Connections between the three poets is established meticulously and convincingly. The book also deals with the controversial question of "authenticity" by
looking at how the poets appear in their oldest manuscript traditions. The author also translates a number of poems that emerge from the earliest manuscript strata, some translated for the first time. In addition, he also deals with the question of reception and interpretations with deep
insight.
this volume...makes a valuable contribution to the field in its sharp focus on disentangling sensitive but historically accurate appreciation of these traditions from their romantic and essentialized perceptions. The approach stressed by Hawley is valuable in the broader study of 'Hinduism' as well.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Transliteration and Abbreviation
Poems Translated, by English Title
Poems Translated, by Hindi Title
Illustrations
Introduction
The Bhakti Poet Saint: Economics of Word and Life
Author and Authority
Morality beyond Morality
The Nirgun/Sagun Distinction
Mirabai
Mirabai in Manuscript
Mirabai as Wife and Yogi
The Saints Subdued in Amar Chitra Katha
Krishna and the Gender of Longing
Surdas
Last Seen with Akbar
The Early Sursagar and the Growth of the Sur Tradition
The Verbal Icon---How Literal?
Sur s Sadama
Creative Enumeration in Sur s Vinaya Poetry
Why Surdas Went Blind
Kabir
The Received Kabir: Beginnings to Bly
Kabir in His Oldest Dated Manuscript
Vinaya Crossovers: Kabir and Sur
Bhakti, Democracy, and the Study of Religion
Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
