Songs for Siva:: Vacanas of Akka Mahadevi - Rilegato

Vinaya Chaitanya

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ISBN 10: 9352644107 ISBN 13: 9789352644100

Casa editrice: HarperCollins India, 2017

Riassunto

Hailed as early feminist literary voice, Akka Mahadevi was born in the twelfth-century in the southwest Indian province of Karnatka. As a child she was initiated into the worship of Channamallikarjuna (translated here as 'jasmine-tender'), her village's version of Siva. She was forced to marry her region's ruler. But because she was devoted only to Siva, she left her husband and all her possessions including her clothes, and wandered a naked poet-saint covered only by her long hair. Her vacanas a new populist literary form meaning literally 'to give one's word' collected here demonstrate both her radical devotion to Siva and the radical commitment to equality for her the vira-saiva movement she joined.

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The image of Akka that emerged in earlier translations is of a radical woman poet prefiguring many of the concerns of present-day feminism. This image of our own age as reflected in Akka's vacanas is accurate as far as it goes; but there are important differences. The experience of the sacred precisely what our age has lost sight of is the very breadth of Akka's vacanas, and Vinaya Chaitanya is to be commended for bringing this aspect of their author to the fore. There is little doubt his labour of love will appeal to a wide readership, for in Akka's vacana is Siva's plenty. Students and practioners of literature, history, sociology, women's studies, philosophy and religion are sure to find Akka's vacanas fascinating in many different ways, while these vacanas are of great spiritual significance also to true spiritual seekers everywhere. --Shiva Prakash, from the foreword, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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• Editore: HarperCollins India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9352644107
• ISBN 13: 9789352644100
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240