When God Is a Customer Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others

Name: When God Is a Customer Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others
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ISBN: 9780520080690

ISBN-10: 0520080696

ISBN-13: 9780520080690

Edition: 1994

Authors: A. K. Ramanujan, David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao

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How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night? These South Indian devotional poems show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer. That customer, it turns out, is the deity, whom the courtesan teases for his infidelities and cajoles into paying her more money. Brazen, autonomous, fully at home in her body, she merges her…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


The Songs


Annamayya


Rudrakavi


Ksetrayya


Sarangapani


Poem to Lord


Konkanesvara


Notes to the Text


Notes to the Songs


Index of Refrains