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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation. ISBN 0195160169 9780195160161 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195160169, ISBN13: 9780195160161, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self. In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers across-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indianliterature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They illuminate a basic human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, and authenticity, not to mention memory, amnesia, and the process of aging. Many of them involve marriage and adultery, for tales of sexual betrayal cut to the heart of the crisis of identity. These stories are extreme examples of what we common folk do, unconsciously, every day. Few of us actually put onmasks that replicate our faces, but it is not uncommon for us to become travesties of ourselves, particularly as we age and change. We often slip carelessly across the permeable boundary between theun-self-conscious self-indulgence of our ...
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New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 2004 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 272 p.

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Hardback. New. Offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation. The stories considered in this book range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They describe a human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, authenticity, memory, and more. ISBN 0195160169 9780195160161 [GB]

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