Tales of Unrestful and Undomesticated Women
Monti, Alessandro / Rozzonelli, Carole![Tales of Unrestful and Undomesticated Women](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/256/25636564/CHSBZCOP0325636564.jpg)
This volume collects three articles that deal with the imagined women in Western and Indian cultures, from the Greeks up to the gendered Hindu frame of mind in the modern colonial age, before independence. In the West women may be imagined as metamorphic creatures, coming back from death to satisfy an unfulfilled wish, even lust, or as ghoulish snakes or vampires. In the nineteenth century they acquire a revengeful nature and sometimes they em...