The Implied Spider: Politics & Theology in MythColumbia University Press, 1998 - 200 lappuses At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when human difference is so relentlessly celebrated, it may even seem impossible to talk about the traditions and experiences that join us across race, religion, and nation. Wendy Doniger offers a powerful antidote to the paralysis of postcolonial intellectual life. In this spirited, enlightening book, she shows just how to make sense of, and learn from, the extraordinary diversity of cultures past and present. Tapping a wealth of traditions, from the Hebrew Bible to the Bhagavad Gita, Doniger crafts a new lens for examining other cultures, and finding in the world's myths--its sacred stories--a way to talk about experiences shared across time and space. "Of all things made with words," Doniger writes, "myths span the widest of human concerns, human paradoxes." Myths, she shows, bridge the cosmic and the familiar, the personal and the abstract, the theological and the political. They encourage us to draw various, even opposed, political meanings from a single text as it travels through different historical contexts. And she demonstrates how studying myths from cultures other than our own can be exhilarating and illuminating. Myth, Doniger shows, provides a near-perfect entree to another culture. Even if scholars such as Freud, Jung, and Joseph Campbell typically overstated the universality of major myths and suppressed the distinctive natures of other cultures, postcolonial critics are wrong to argue that nothing good can come from a systematic comparative study of human cultures. Doniger offers an engaged, expansive critical tool kit for doing just that. She suggests critical and responsible ways in which to compare stories--or texts or myths or traditions--from different cultures by revealing patterns of truth from themes that recur time and again. In this book, Doniger helps expand the arena of meaning we live in, leaping, in her words, "from myth to myth as if they were stepping stones over the gulf that seems to separate cultures." She enables us to see, at last, the "implied spider" that weaves the web of meaning that sustains all human cultures-the fabric of our shared humanity. |
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Dark Cats Barking Dogs Chariots and Knives | 27 |
Implied Spiders and the Politics of Individualism | 53 |
CONTENTS | 79 |
Mother Goose and the Voices of Women | 109 |
Textual Pluralism and Academic Pluralism | 137 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 177 |
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A. K. Ramanujan ACADEMIC PLURALISM ancient Annie Dillard archetype argued Arjuna BARKING DOGS Carlo Ginzburg chapter chariot Chicago Press Claude Lévi-Strauss common comparatist comparative comparison construct context cross-cultural DARK CATS David Tracy different cultures evil experience female feminist Geertz Gender Genesis genre Ginzburg Greek Hebrew Bible Hindu human Ibid IMPLIED SPIDERS India interpretation Jonathan Z king Krishna language look Mahabharata male Marina Warner meaning men's metaphor method micromyth MICROSCOPES AND TELESCOPES MOTHER GOOSE MULTIVOCALITY myth mythemes mythic mythology Nagasena narrative novel O'Flaherty personal communication Plato PLURALISM AND ACADEMIC poem point of view POLITICS OF INDIVIDUALISM problem Ramayana Rig Veda Sanskrit scholars sexual Shakespeare sort speak story of Tamar structures Swan Maiden tell teller TEXTUAL PLURALISM themes things tion told tradition Trans translation University of Chicago University Press variants VOICES OF WOMEN Wendy Doniger woman women's voices words York
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