When God Is a Customer - Telugu Courtesan Songs By Ksetrayya and Others

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List of contents

Preface 
Introduction 

The Songs
ANNAMAYYA 
RUDRAKAVI 
KSETRAYYA 
SARAN GAP ANI 
Poem to Lord
KONKANESVARA 

Notes to the Text 
Notes to the Songs 
Index of Refrains

About the author

A. K. Ramanujan, recently deceased, was a poet published in English and Kannada, and served as William E. Colvin Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Velcheru Narayana Rao is a poet and critic in Telugu, and Professor of South Asian Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. David Shulman is a poet in Hebrew, and Professor of South Asian Studies and Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Summary

Features the South Indian devotional poems that 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.

Product details

• Authors: Velcheru Narayana Rao, A. K. Ramanujan, A. K. Narayana Rao Ramanujan, Ramanujan/Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Shulman David
• Assisted by: A. K. Ramanujan (Editor), Velcheru Narayana Rao (Editor), David Shulman (Editor), David Dean Shulman (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1994
• EAN: 9780520080690
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08069-0
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; RELIGION / General, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Ural-Altaic & Hyperborean languages, Other non-Christian religions, Ural-Altaic and Hyperborean languages, Other religions and spiritual beliefs