Encountering Kali : In the Margins, at the Center, in the West.
Title:
Encountering Kali : In the Margins, at the Center, in the West.
Author:
McDermott, Rachel Fell.
ISBN:
9780520928176
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (341 pages)
Contents:
illustrations -- acknowledgments -- about the chapter silhouettes -- notes on transliteration -- Introducing Kali Studies -- part I: Kalı in the Texts and Contexts of South Asia -- 1 Kalı -- 2 Kalı the Terrific and Her Tests: The Sákta Devotionalism of the Mahabhagavata Purana -- 3 The Domestication of a Goddess: Carana-tırtha Kalıghat, the Mahapıtha of Kalı -- 4 Dominating Kalı: Hindu Family Values and Tantric Power -- 5 Kali in a Context of Terror: The Tasks of a Goddess in Sri Lanka's Civil War -- 6 Kalı Mayı: Myth and Reality in a Banaras Ghetto -- part II: Kalı in Western Settings, Western Discourses -- 7 Wrestling with Kalı: South Asian and British Constructions of the Dark Goddess -- 8 "India's Darkest Heart": Kalı in the Colonial Imagination -- 9 Why the Tantrika Is a Hero: Kalı in the Psychoanalytic Tradition -- 10 Doing the Mother's Caribbean Work: On Shakti and Society in Contemporary Trinidad -- 11 Margins at the Center: Tracing Kalı through Time, Space, and Culture -- 12 Kalı's New Frontiers: A Hindu Goddess on the Internet -- appendix: Documentary Film and Video Resources for Teaching on Kalı and Fierce Goddesses -- select bibliography -- contributors -- index.
Abstract:
Encountering Kali explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen-the Hindu goddess Kali. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon, this volume focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kali in both her indigenous South Asian settings and her more recent Western incarnations. Using scriptural history, temple architecture, political violence, feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, autobiographical reflection, and the goddess's recent guises on the Internet, the contributors pose questions relevant to our understanding of Kali, as they illuminate the problems and promises inherent in every act of cross-cultural interpretation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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