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- DECLARATION
- CERTIFICATE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- I Introduction
- Tales and Framed Narrative
- Indian Genesis of the Framed Narrative
- The Kathasaritsagara
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments
- Ideology
- Gender
- Section I Femininities
- II The Politics of Containment and Transgression
- Totalitarian Taxonomies
- Revelatory Aptronyms
- Legal Agency
- Panopticism as a Regulatory Discourse of Patriarchy
- The Problematic of Patriarchy in the Arabian Nights
- III The Poetics of Containment and Transgression
- Stereotyping
- Orderly / Disorderly: The Politics of Transgression
- Witches
- Appropriation through Misogyny
- Uncontained Sexuality1 Romiscuity
- Miscegenation
- Rarity of Chaste Women
- Commodification of Women
- Perverse Implantation.
- Women as weak and flighty
- Appropriation of Woman as NarratorJAudience
- The Nexus of Homo-social Bonding
- The Ideology in the Fabulous
- Submission and the Myth of Emancipation
- Faultlines in Discourses: A Case in Discussion
- Section II Masculinities
- IV Mythopoeia of Masculinity
- Historicizing Masculinity: Theory and the Body
- Hegemonic Masculinity
- Caste and Masculinity in the Hindu Context
- Masculinity in the Islamic Context
- Identity and Fear of Emasculation
- Masculine Women
- V Masquerade of Masculinities
- Heroic Masculinity
- a) The Mystique of the Physique
- b) Rites of Passage
- Index of Heroism
- c) The Spectacle of Masculinity
- d) Enscripting Nobility
- e) Valourisation of Death
- Other Masculinities
- Bricolage Masculinity
- Black Masculinity
- Homo-erotic masculinity
- Faultlines in Discourses: Case in Discussion
- VI Conclusion
- The Oriental Mystique:
- Hermeneutics and Cultural Semiology
- Problems faced when reading a medieval text
- Problem of using Translations
- Orientalism and Burton
- Select Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Journals
- Online Books/Articles