Lament and the Work of Tears: Andromache, Sītā, Yaśodharā

Hopkins, Steven P.

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“…Literary lament, particularly feminine literary lament, domesticates wild and uncontrollable emotion into something thinkable by using "highly formal aesthetic frameworks that express systematic and sober attentiveness to pain, emotion experienced with and within acts of language." 8 Hopkins argues that this coupling of formal aesthetic frameworks and the excessive emotions in literary laments "troubles the traditional binaries of 'raw' emotion and 'secondary' reflection." 9 Therefore, the lament's focus on emotion does not preclude a reflection on the pain and emotion that are experienced.…”

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“…8 Hopkins argues that this coupling of formal aesthetic frameworks and the excessive emotions in literary laments "troubles the traditional binaries of 'raw' emotion and 'secondary' reflection." 9 Therefore, the lament's focus on emotion does not preclude a reflection on the pain and emotion that are experienced. The use of formal aesthetic modes of description allows us access to a more painstaking analysis of pain and trauma.…”

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“…calling for action, for revenge, for social justice; they perform what is impossible to speak in any other way." 10 Laments, therefore, can provide a socially acceptable normative space for feminine critique and dissent that have no other avenue in prevalent social norms and conditions. Hopkins discusses Sita's lament in the epic Ramayana where Sita rails against her abductor, Ravana, and laments her separation from her husband, Rama.…”

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“…With the blessing of the almighty, like Laxmi, You, Utkal Bhumi, will be the mother of warriors and a sati. (9) While this exhortation is aimed at the Utkal Mata, the resolution of the crisis lies in the hands of the Odia people. In the tradition of Odia laments that do more than just grieve, even as what is being lamented here is the abjection of the motherland, we also find a presence of a dual critique.…”

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Mourning the Mother: Death and Feminine Authority in Odia Commemorations of Queen Victoria

Mishra

2024

Victorian Literature and Culture

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The death of Queen Victoria occasioned the publication of commemorative narratives in early twentieth-century Odisha. They serve as site for understanding how feminine authority was imagined as the Odia literati engaged in a fraught movement for the formation of a separate province of Odisha. They imagined an Odia motherland in relation to figures of maternal authority such as mother India and mother Victoria. This article explores this vernacular representation of the queen as mother in the work of the poet Madhusudan Rao. By drawing on traditions of lament and maternal authority, the article illustrates how Rao used lament to carve out a palimpsest of multiple identities, from imperial subjecthood to regional belonging.

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Section: What Remains? Lament and Critique In Mourningmentioning

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“…more broadly, convey not just grief and sorrow but also powerful social and moral critique (Hopkins, 2021).…”

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The Workings of Contempt in Classical Indian Texts

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2023

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This article examines Sanskrit and Pali conceptions of contempt, and explores how they work in a number of ancient Indian genres, with a sustained focus on the Rāmāyaṇa. The article argues that while Indian texts often analyze emotion words and concepts systematically and with intricate granularity, contempt was not seen as an interior state to be theorized or managed therapeutically or morally. Rather, words for contempt are used to describe behaviors, etiquette, and social relationships, and are principally concerned with stipulating social status.

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Lament and the Work of Tears: Andromache, Sītā, Yaśodharā

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Mourning the Mother: Death and Feminine Authority in Odia Commemorations of Queen Victoria

Mourning the Mother: Death and Feminine Authority in Odia Commemorations of Queen Victoria

The Workings of Contempt in Classical Indian Texts

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