The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation

by Wendy Doniger

Book Overview

Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self.
In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195160169
• ISBN13: 9780195160161
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"