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When God is a Customer - Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (Paperback)
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When God is a Customer - Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (Paperback)
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How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her
saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the
crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his
passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night?
These South Indian devotional poems show the dramatic use of erotic
language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the
fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice,
the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer. That customer, it
turns out, is the deity, whom the courtesan teases for his
infidelities and cajoles into paying her more money. Brazen,
autonomous, fully at home in her body, she merges her worldly
knowledge with the deity's transcendent power in the act of making
love.
This volume is the first substantial collection in English of these
Telugu writings, which are still part of the standard repertoire of
songs used by classical South Indian dancers. A foreword provides
context for the poems, investigating their religious, cultural, and
historical significance. Explored, too, are the attempts to contain
their explicit eroticism by various apologetic and rationalizing
devices.
The translators, who are poets as well as highly respected
scholars, render the poems with intelligence and tenderness.
Unusual for their combination of overt eroticism and devotion to
God, these poems are a delight to read.
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