Performing the ‘Maternal’ Body:

This paper looks at women’s folk singing tradition of Haryana to unearth the images of the new mother, as constructed in the folksongs called Jachcha, sung in the context of childbirth. The attempt is to foreground the embodied voices of women as they emerge in the context of motherhood, in order to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ojaswini Hooda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Boibhashik 2021-09-01
Series:Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
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Online Access:https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/1