ISBN:
9781793616142
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23082
Keywords:
Wives in literature
;
Single women in literature
;
Single women in motion pictures
;
Women in popular cultures
Abstract:
This book examines representation of the cultural and personal realties of the bride in popular cultural texts around the world. Written by authors from a wide range of disciplinary and national contexts, the essays take a perspective on the bride that reveals similarities rather than differences across cultures.
Abstract:
Cover -- The Bride in the Cultural Imagination -- The Bride in the Cultural ImaginationScreen, Stage, and LiteraryProductions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Plautus, and Public Depictions of the Bride in Rome -- Overview of the Roman Bride -- Plautus's Casina: A Source for the Roman Bride -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 -- In Grey and Pink -- How to Be a Bride in Postwar Spain -- Spinsterhood -- Carlota O'Neill (1905-2000): Becoming Laura De Noves -- A Slow Shift toward Realism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Sex and the Bride -- Background to the Study -- The Bride in Twenty-First-Century India -- The Bride in Hindi Literature -- Manifold Brides: New Forms of Marriage -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Here Comes the (Bollywood) Bride -- Brides in Indian Society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Ideological and Cultural Manifestations in Bridal Narrative and the Image of the Bride in Modern Egyptian Visual Culture -- The Egyptian Bride: Culture, Tradition, and Patriarchy -- Egyptian Filmic Portrayals: "Safe Values" -- The Egyptian Bride: From Socialist to Neoliberal Egyptian Socioeconomic Matrix -- The Spinster: Sexuality, Religion, and Socioeconomic Political Reality -- Harbingers of Change -- Virginity: Honor Killing and Sharia -- Virginity -- Orfi Marriage -- The Bride as Allegory -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 6 -- The Image of a Bride in Tajik Cinema -- Sociohistorical Background to the Films -- Tajikistan's Cinematic Brides -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 -- The "Economics" of Bride-Price in Nigerian Women's Literature -- Theoretical Framework -- Bride-Price -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 -- The Bride's Agency -- The Transformative Kenyan Bride.
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