Misplaced Heads - Softcover

Sankar, Jayanthi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 939005303X ISBN 13: 9789390053032

Publisher: Zero Degree Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

The shift in the time frames, from past to present are seamlessly flowing with respective characters. The novelist has done dense research in every detail of the repertoire, the training of the devadasis, and their style. I was awestruck. It was mind-blowing, to think about how she could even decipher various adavus and various mudras used by us, dancers. -Kalaimamani Dr. Radhika Shurajit, Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, Chennai This fiction is a standing testament that though times have changed immensely, the bare human emotion towards art and feelings towards fellow human beings remain the same and are truly eternal. A devadasi of the yesteryear would not fret towards a polygamous institution as much as a conditioned woman today would. The ironies are brought out gracefully while normalizing many human emotions, probably considered a taboo by the general public. - Prathik Sudha Murali, Historian, Teacher, Public speaker, Chennai In this fabulous post-modernistic, historical fiction with feministic metaphors, the protagonist Poorna's perspective towards her man reads so much like the modern representation of the temple a woman married to God. - - Raaghav Sankar. Banking professional, Singapore This creative work is very unique in putting together apparently disjointed fragments spanning centuries and geographical locations and an array of characters from different eras with their quirky and very specific to times tonality and expressions. The unfolding of the characters and the experiences of the temple dancer communities bring to the reader an unrivaled perspective of the honor and dignity of the much-misrepresented class of women. -Usha Nagasamy, Lecturer in Further Education College, London The expansive postmodernist novel peopled with over a dozen characters, spanning generations, different ages, and varying milieus successfully trashes several misconceptions regarding the devadasi culture in India. It attempts to correct the distorted picture of the syst

Edition details

• Publisher: Zero Degree Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 939005303X
• ISBN 13: 9789390053032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492