The Rāmāyaṇa revisited /

Includes bibliographical references.

Resisting Rāma: dharmic debates on gender and hierarchy and the work of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa / Robert P. Goldman -- Gendered narratives: gender, space, and narrative structures in Vālmīki's Bālakāṇḍa / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman -- Rāmāyaṇa textual traditions in eastern India / William L. Smith -- Reinventing the Rāmāyaṇa in twentieth-century Bengali literature / Mandakranta Bose -- Why can't a shudra perform asceticism?: Śambūka in three modern south Indian plays / Paula Richman -- Hanumān's adventures underground: the narrative logic of a Rāmāyaṇa 'interpolation' / Philip Lutgendorf -- 'Only you': the wedding of Rāma and Sītā, past and present / Heidi Pauwels -- When does Sītā cease to be Sītā?: notes toward a cultural grammar of Indian narratives / Velcheru Narayana Rao -- Representing the Rāmāyaṇa on the Kūṭiyāṭṭam stage / Bruce M. Sullivan -- The 'radio-active' Gīta-Rāmāyaṇa: home and abroad / Vidyut Aklujkar -- Mysticism and Islam in Javanese Rāmāyaṇa tales / Laurie J. Sears -- Chasing Sītā on a global/local interface: where cartographies collide, silent vessels 'tell in full' / Kaja M. McGowan -- The Rāmāyaṇa in the arts of Thailand and Cambodia / Julie B. Mehta -- The Rāmāyaṇa theme in the visual arts of south and southeast Asia / Kapila Vatsyayan -- The Rāmāyaṇa in Asia -- Variant names of main characters.