«You Are the Same Śikhaṇḍinī»: Narrative Constructions of Śikhaṇḍin’s (Gender) Identity in the Mahābhārata
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Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://doi.org/10.54103/consonanze.139.c166" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.54103/consonanze.139.c166</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/consonanze.139.c166" target="_blank" >10.54103/consonanze.139.c166</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
«You Are the Same Śikhaṇḍinī»: Narrative Constructions of Śikhaṇḍin’s (Gender) Identity in the Mahābhārata
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
In the Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma creates the narrative of his own death: he connects his not fighting against Śikhaṇḍin, an alleged (former) woman, to his famous vow of celibacy, thus also to his boon of svacchandamaraṇa, and claims that killing a woman would mean killing himself (yadi bhīṣmaḥ striyaṃ hanyād dhanyād ātmānam apy utaǀ 5.193.65). Bhīṣma is the primary source of information about Śikhaṇḍin, as well as the person most affected by it. The problem of Śikhaṇḍin's gender is discussed on several occasions in the Udyogaparvan and the Bhīṣmaparvan, and its importance is limited to Bhīṣma's "death", i.e. falling on the bed of arrows, after which is this Śikhaṇḍin's attribute practically forgotten. The truthfulness of Śikhaṇḍin's (former) womanhood is almost exclusively dependent on Bhīṣma's reliability as a narrator, and his entire character is authoritatively defined by Bhīṣma as well.In this paper, the problem of Śikhaṇḍin's status as a liminal figure, i.e. both as a (former) woman and a character defined by another character, will be evaluated in connection to how Bhīṣma created not only the means but the whole narrative of his death using Śikhaṇḍin's gender. Bhīṣma presents the issue slightly differently to the Kauravas (the emphasis is on Śikhaṇḍin's current womanhood), to the Pāṇḍavas (former womanhood), and to Śikhaṇḍin himself (current womanhood), and also creates presumably deliberate ambiguity between referring to Śikhaṇḍin's birth gender and previous life as Ambā. Other characters merely quote him and are obviously puzzled by the news of Śikhaṇḍin's status as a strī [woman], strīpuṃs [woman-man] or strīpūrvaka [former woman], and simply use the fact without either refusing or confirming it, thus taking part in the narrative presented by Bhīṣma, which authoritatively defined Śikhaṇḍin's character and created a powerful self-myth.
Název v anglickém jazyce
«You Are the Same Śikhaṇḍinī»: Narrative Constructions of Śikhaṇḍin’s (Gender) Identity in the Mahābhārata
Popis výsledku anglicky
In the Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma creates the narrative of his own death: he connects his not fighting against Śikhaṇḍin, an alleged (former) woman, to his famous vow of celibacy, thus also to his boon of svacchandamaraṇa, and claims that killing a woman would mean killing himself (yadi bhīṣmaḥ striyaṃ hanyād dhanyād ātmānam apy utaǀ 5.193.65). Bhīṣma is the primary source of information about Śikhaṇḍin, as well as the person most affected by it. The problem of Śikhaṇḍin's gender is discussed on several occasions in the Udyogaparvan and the Bhīṣmaparvan, and its importance is limited to Bhīṣma's "death", i.e. falling on the bed of arrows, after which is this Śikhaṇḍin's attribute practically forgotten. The truthfulness of Śikhaṇḍin's (former) womanhood is almost exclusively dependent on Bhīṣma's reliability as a narrator, and his entire character is authoritatively defined by Bhīṣma as well.In this paper, the problem of Śikhaṇḍin's status as a liminal figure, i.e. both as a (former) woman and a character defined by another character, will be evaluated in connection to how Bhīṣma created not only the means but the whole narrative of his death using Śikhaṇḍin's gender. Bhīṣma presents the issue slightly differently to the Kauravas (the emphasis is on Śikhaṇḍin's current womanhood), to the Pāṇḍavas (former womanhood), and to Śikhaṇḍin himself (current womanhood), and also creates presumably deliberate ambiguity between referring to Śikhaṇḍin's birth gender and previous life as Ambā. Other characters merely quote him and are obviously puzzled by the news of Śikhaṇḍin's status as a strī [woman], strīpuṃs [woman-man] or strīpūrvaka [former woman], and simply use the fact without either refusing or confirming it, thus taking part in the narrative presented by Bhīṣma, which authoritatively defined Śikhaṇḍin's character and created a powerful self-myth.
Klasifikace
Druh
D - Stať ve sborníku
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2023
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název statě ve sborníku
Liminal Spaces, and Identity Transformations in South Asian Literatures and Arts
ISBN
979-12-5510-050-8
ISSN
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e-ISSN
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Počet stran výsledku
19
Strana od-do
153-171
Název nakladatele
Universita di Milano
Místo vydání
Milano
Místo konání akce
Milano
Datum konání akce
19. 9. 2019
Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti
WRD - Celosvětová akce
Kód UT WoS článku
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