Pradyumna Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara
Pradyumna Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara
- ISBN 13:
9780190054113
- ISBN 10:
0190054115
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/04/2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Pradyumna: Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara assembles these narratives, presents key Sanskrit materials in translation and summary form, and articulates the social, gender, and religious values encoded in them. Most importantly, the study argues that Pradyumna's signature two-handed maneuver--the audacious appropriation of a feminine partner, enabled by the emasculating destruction of her demonic male protector--communicates a persistent fantasy of male power expressed in the language of a mutually implicating sex and violence.