《老妇人与故事:探索孟加拉神话中年龄与性别的交集》

4区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI:10.1353/mat.2023.a900262

Raahi Adhya

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[摘要]孟加拉语文学流派《鲁普卡塔》(roopkatha)是一种取材于西孟加拉邦和孟加拉国地区的故事，在20世纪初孟加拉反殖民主义文化民族主义的高潮时期获得了极大的欢迎。它的显著特征之一是与老年妇女的联系。本文从叙事、话语和社会历史三个层面对鲁夫卡塔的老妇人进行了研究，认为她是一个心胸宽广的人物，她打破了对童话人物的二元理解，对老年的普遍假设，以及对南亚老年妇女社会角色的假设。

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The Old Woman and the Tale: Exploring the Intersection of Age and Gender within the Bengali Roopkatha

Abstract:The Bengali literary genre of the roopkatha, tales collected from regions that now lie in West Bengal and Bangladesh, gained immense popularity during the peak of anticolonial cultural nationalism in Bengal over the turn of the twentieth century. Among its defining characteristics is its association with old women. This article studies the roopkatha's old woman at the three levels of narrative, discourse, and social history to argue that she emerges as a capacious figure who troubles binary understandings of fairy-tale characterization, universalized assumptions about old age, and assumptions about the social roles of old women in South Asia.

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期刊介绍： Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales. In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives. The journal''s special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.