Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts - Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa Monica, Goa, India. A Bilingual Edition

"Bilingual edition and translation (from Portuguese) of two unique dramatic works--a puppet show and a choral program--composed and performed in the eighteenth century by the nuns of the Indo-Portuguese Royal Convent of Santa Monica (1606-1835) in Goa, India, displaying the complex cultural interactions between European and South Asian literary and religious traditions"--

About the author

Daniel Michon, associate professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College, is the author of Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India: History, Theory, Practice and the editor and translator with D .A. Smith of To Serve God in Holy Freedom: The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India, 1731-1734. D. A. Smith has translated several Goan and Indo-Portuguese literary and historical works, including Orlando da Costa's novel O Signo da Ira, the collected poetry of Laxmanrao Sardessai, Leonor Figueiredo's biography of Sita Valles, and To Serve God in Holy Freedom: The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India, 1731-1734.

Product details

• Assisted by: Daniel Michon (Editor), Daniel Michon (Translation), D. A. Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781649591258
• ISBN: 978-1-64959-125-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 152 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 384 g
• Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics