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This essay collection examines the cultural and personal world of girls and women at a time when their lives, their person, their realities, and their status are about to change forever. Together, the chapters cleverly create an in-depth study of the subject, and look at several cultural forms to offer a different approach to the popularly-held views of the bride. The critical essays in this edited collection are thematically driven and include global perspectives of the portrayals of the bride in the films, stage productions and pop-culture narratives from Nigeria; Kenya; Uganda; Tanzania; Spain; Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; Tajikistan; India; Egypt; and the South-Eastern Indian Ocean Islands. This multinational approach provides insight into the intricacies, customs, practices, and life-styles surrounding the bride in various Eastern and Western cultures.
List of contents
Foreword by Kevin Hall
Introduction by Jo Parnell and Josephine May
1. Plautus, Catullus and Public Depictions of the Bride in Rome
Jane Bellemore
2. In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Post-War Novela Rosa
Rosana Murias
3. Sex and the Bride: Citra Mudgal's Hindi Short Story Dulhin as a Mirror of Changing Family Relations in Contemporary India
Alessandra Consolaro
4. Here Comes the (Bollywood) Bride: Gender, Power, Family, and Patriarchy in
Millennial India
Andrew Howe
5. Ideological and Cultural Manifestations in Bridal Narrative and the Image of the Bride in Modern Egyptian Visual Culture
Azza Harras
6. The Image of a Bride in Tajik Cinema
Sharofat Arabova
7. The "Economics" of Bride Price in Nigerian Women's Literature
Shalini Nadaswaran
8. The Bride's Agency: East Africa Novelistic and Dramatic Imaginaries
Wafula Yenjela
9. Advertising the Bride in South-Eastern Indian Ocean Islands
Zoly Rakotoniera and Gladys Abdoul
About the author
Jo Parnell is Honorary Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Science (HCISS), College of Human and Social Futures, at the University of Newcastle, Australia.Jo Parnell is Honorary Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Science (HCISS), College of Human and Social Futures, at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
