Bibliography on Teaching the Mahabharata

Complied by Tracy Coleman from RISA-L discussions

1) John Brockington's, The Sanskrit Epics. Leiden: Brill, 1998. Very useful text and bibliography.

2) Jim Fitzgerald's web pages on The Mahabharata.

3) Forthcoming article by Jim Fitzgerald, written for The Hindu World, edited by G, Thursby and S. Mittal (Routledge).

4) Sullivan, Bruce, "Temple Rites and Temple Servants: The Role of Religion in the Survival of Kerala's Kutiyattam Drama Tradition," International Journal of Hindu Studies 1 (1997): 97-115.

________.  "The Unworshipped Avatar: Vyasa's Relationships with Visnu and Brahma," Journal of Vaisnava Studies 4, no.3 (Summer, 1996): 57-64.

________. "Tapati-Samvaranam, a Kutiyattam Drama by Kulasekhara Varman." Introduced by Bruce M. Sullivan. Translated, with notes, by Bruce M. Sullivan and N. P. Unni. Asian Theatre Journal 13, no. 1 (Spring, 1996): 26-53.

________. "The Religious Authority of the Mahabharata: Vyasa and Brahma in the Hindu Scriptural Tradition," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62, 2 (Summer, 1994): 377-401.

5) Sally Sutherland, "Sita and Drauapadi: Aggressive Behavior and Female Role-Models in the Sanskrit Epics," JAOS,109 #1 (1989): 63-79.

6) On Peter Brook's film "Mahabharata"

Bessinger, M., and J. Tylus, eds. Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Bharucha, Rustom. "A View From India (Peter Brook's Mahabharata)." In Peter Brook and The Mahabharata, edited by David Williams, 228-52. London: Routledge, 1991.

Dasgupta, Gautam. "Peter Brook's "Orientalism"." In Peter Brook and The Mahabharata, edited by David Williams, 262-67. London: Routledge, 1991.

O'Connor, Garry. The Mahabharata: Peter Brook's Epic in the Making. San Francisco: Mercury House, Inc., 1990.

7) J.A.B. van Buitenen's Introduction to his 'bi-lingual' translation of the Bhagavad-gita.

8) Journal of Vaisnava Studies 4, no.3 (Summer, 1996): Mahabharata Issue

Compiled by Ann Grodzins Gold from RISA-L discussions.

Babb, Lawrence A. and Susan S. Wadley, eds. 1995. Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Bhattacharya, Rinki 1985. "Portrayals of Women in Indian Cinema."  In Indian Films Today: An Anthology of Articles on Indian Cinema. New Delhi: Tenth International Film Festival of India.

Chakravarty, Sumita S. 1993. National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema: 1947-1987. Austin: University of Texas Press.  [see chapter on "women and the burden of postcoloniality -- courtesan genre]

Derne, Steve 1995 "Cultural Arenas that Celebrate the Individual" from his Culture in Action, 94-103. Albany: SUNY.

Dickey, Sara. 1995. "Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu." In Consuming Modernity, ed. Carol A. Breckenridge, 131-156. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Dissanayake, W. 1993. "The Concepts of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: An evolving dialectic."  In Melodrama and Asian Cinema. Edited by W. Dissanayake, pp. 189-204. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ghadially, Rehana, ed. 1988 Women in Indian Society. New Delhi ; Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.  [contains 2 essays on films and 1 on television]

Gokulsing, K. Moti, and Wimal Dissanayake. 1998. Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change. Staffordshire, England: Trentham Books. See Chapter 5 "Women in Indian Cinema" pp. 75-90.

Gopalan, Lalitha. 1997. "Coitus Interruptus and Love Story in Indian Cinema." In Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art, ed. Vidya Dehejia, 124-139. Delhi: Kali for Women.

Jacod, Preminda. 1997. "From Co-Star to Deity: Popular Representations of Jayalalitha Jayaram."  In Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art, ed. Vidya Dehejia, 140-165. Delhi: Kali for Women.

Kumar, K. N. 1995. "Women in Indian Cinema: Marginalised and Exploited."   In Indian Cinema: Ebbs and Tides, pp. 33-51. New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications.

Monteiro, Anjali. 1998. "Official Television and unofficial fabrications of the self: The Spectator as Subject."  In The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema, ed. Ashis Nandy, pp. 157-207. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Rao, Maithili. 1995. "To Be a Woman."  In Frames of Mind: Reflections on Indian Cinema, ed. by Aruna Vasudev, 241-256. New Delhi: UBS Publishers.

Roy, Parama. 1998. "Figuring Mother India: The Case of Nargis."  In Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari. 1993. "The Name of the Husband: Testimony and Taboo in the Wife's Discourse."  In Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism, 83-102. London: Routledge.

Thomas, Rosie 1995. "Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi Film."  In Consuming Modernity, ed. Carol A. Breckenridge, 157-182. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Zutshi, Somnath 1993 "Women, Nation and the Outsider in Contemporary Hindi Cinema." In Interrogating Modernity, ed. Tejaswini Niranjana, P. Sudhir, Vivek Dhareshwar. Calcutta : Seagull.

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