Bride in the Cultural Imagination

Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This essay collection examines the cultural and personal world of girls and women at a time when their lives, their person, their realities, and their status are about to change forever. Together, the chapters cleverly create an in-depth study of the subject, and look at several cultural forms to offer a different approach to the popularly-held views of the bride. The critical essays in this edited collection are thematically driven and include global perspectives of the portrayals of the bride in the films, stage productions and pop-culture narratives from Nigeria; Kenya; Uganda; Tanzania; Spain; Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; Tajikistan; India; Egypt; and the South-Eastern Indian Ocean Islands. This multinational approach provides insight into the intricacies, customs, practices, and life-styles surrounding the bride in various Eastern and Western cultures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-11-13
Mått163 x 228 x 21 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor206
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareHall,Kevin
ISBN9781793616135

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Foreword by Kevin Hall Introduction by Jo Parnell and Josephine May 1.Plautus, Catullus and Public Depictions of the Bride in RomeJane Bellemore 2.In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Post-War Novela RosaRosana Murias 3.Sex and the Bride: Citra Mudgal’s Hindi Short Story Dulhin as a Mirror of Changing Family Relations in Contemporary IndiaAlessandra Consolaro 4.Here Comes the (Bollywood) Bride: Gender, Power, Family, and Patriarchy inMillennial IndiaAndrew Howe 5.Ideological and Cultural Manifestations in Bridal Narrative and the Image of the Bride in Modern Egyptian Visual CultureAzza Harras 6.The Image of a Bride in Tajik CinemaSharofat Arabova 7.The “Economics” of Bride Price in Nigerian Women’s LiteratureShalini Nadaswaran 8.The Bride’s Agency: East Africa Novelistic and Dramatic Imaginaries Wafula Yenjela 9.Advertising the Bride in South-Eastern Indian Ocean IslandsZoly Rakotoniera and Gladys Abdoul

Dr. Jo Parnell’s collection of scholarly essays on Bride is a fascinating read. The topic is riveting and the collection is beautifully put together. The poignant figure of the bride parades before us in a series of different global cultures, past and present, each of them blending tradition and (occasionally) innovation, fantasy and reality, and empowerment and subjugation. There are common threads and striking differences. Amazing that no-one has thought of doing this before, but we can rejoice that someone has now carried it off!