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Burning Women - Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India (Paperback, 1st ed. 2003)
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Burning Women - Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India (Paperback, 1st ed. 2003)
Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
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In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal
transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, 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 widow burning 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 travellers to protect their own identity as
uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of 'Eastern
barbarity'.
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