The Language of the Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward the History of Women s Writing in Sanskrit in the 18 th - to 20 th - Century Kerala

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The study, The Language ofthe Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward a History of Women s Writing in Sanskrit in the 18th- to 20th-century Kerala, addresses the subject of Sanskrit culture in Kerala and women s participation in it. Each chapter, de-picting literary activities of poetesses belonging to different contexts, raises different questions. Each ofthe biographies included in the book brings new details concerningthe life of women-writers atthat time. Ań attempt is madę to reconstruct historical reality and materiał culture, the practices of writ-ing, daily routine of poetesses, objects surrounding them, etc„ in each case under discussion.

Lidia Sudyka is Professor in the Department of of Lan-guages and Cultures of India and South Asia at the Insti-tute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. She is one of the very few Polish specialists deal-ing with dass[cal Sanskrit literaturę (kavya), including in-digenous literary theory. In the scope of her interests arę also selected aspects ofthe contemporary and historical forms of textual transmission and persistence of literary cultures in India.

Książka "The Language of the Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward the History of Women s Writing in Sanskrit in the 18 th - to 20 th - Century Kerala" - Lidia Sudyka - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka. Książka posiada 224 stron i została wydana w 2019 r. Cena 33.73 zł. Zapraszamy na zakupy!