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Wild Women
- Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry
Engelsk Hardback
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- Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry
Engelsk Hardback

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The names of Mirabai, Akka Mahadevi and Andal, are known to many, but innumerable women poets remain relatively unknown. When we hear of them, it is invariably as plaster saints or meek followers. It is time to smell the danger in their words again, to listen to their feral sensuality, their searing questions
about custodians of gender and faith. It is time to tune into their brazenness, their heartbreaking
longing. Not just for their sake but for ours too.

In this anthology of sacred poetry that arrives after the much-loved book, Eating God, Arundhathi Subramaniam weaves together haunting voices of, by and for women across the Indian subcontinent. Here is a lineage of audacious woman-centred spirituality that traverses the poetry of ancient Buddhist nuns,
Bhakti and Sufi mystics, tantrikas and Vedantins. There are women here, and men singing as women, and both raising their voices in praise of the sacred feminine. Brought to us through translation, these poems surprise with how intimately familiar their ravenous yearnings and ecstatic freedoms are. Wild Women invites us to reclaim an explosive inheritance of female power, rapture and wisdom.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
428
ISBN-13:
9780143464907
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0143464906
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
4 mar 2024
Længde:
41mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
225mm
Forlag:
Penguin Random House India
Oplagsdato:
4 mar 2024
Forfatter(e):
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