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- catalog abstract ""In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widowburning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widowburning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travelers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amid spectacular displays of "Eastern barbarity.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12699251.
- catalog coverage "India Description and travel History.".
- catalog coverage "India Description and travel.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widowburning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widowburning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travelers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amid spectacular displays of "Eastern barbarity.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-267) and index.".
- catalog description "Overlapping discourses: widows, witches, and forms of literary haunting -- Under Western eyes: sati and witches in European representations -- Instructions for Christian women: the sati and European widows -- Disorderly wives, poison, and the iconography of female murderers -- Civility and "dying" to speak: sati, the fetish, and history.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 278 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1403960186".
- catalog isPartOf "Early modern cultural studies".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "India Description and travel History.".
- catalog spatial "India Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "India".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "393/.9/0954 21".
- catalog subject "Europeans India History.".
- catalog subject "GT3370 .B36 2003".
- catalog subject "Sati India.".
- catalog subject "Travelers India History.".
- catalog subject "Travelers India.".
- catalog subject "Widow suicide India.".
- catalog subject "Women India Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Overlapping discourses: widows, witches, and forms of literary haunting -- Under Western eyes: sati and witches in European representations -- Instructions for Christian women: the sati and European widows -- Disorderly wives, poison, and the iconography of female murderers -- Civility and "dying" to speak: sati, the fetish, and history.".
- catalog title "Burning women : widows, witches, and early modern European travelers in India / Pompa Banerjee.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".