Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts: Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa M?nica, Goa, India by Michon, Daniel

Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts: Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa M?nica, Goa, India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781649591258)

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Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts: Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa M?nica, Goa, India by Michon, Daniel

Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts: Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa M?nica, Goa, India

$51.20
Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts: Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa M?nica, Goa, India by Michon, Daniel

Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts: Celebrations of the Indo-Portuguese Nuns in the Eighteenth-Century Real Convento de Santa M?nica, Goa, India

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Format: Paperback
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The two eighteenth-century texts translated here offer a rare glimpse into the creative lives of cloistered nuns in Asia, providing a valuable example of early modern "other voices" in a colonial context.

The Entrada de Bonifrate para Festa dos Reis, a shadow puppet play for the feast of the Kings, and the Cartepa?o da Muzica, a songbook for the feast of St. John, showcase the imaginative minds of the nuns at the Indo-Portuguese Real Convento de Santa M?nica, Goa, India. Composed for private convent audiences, these texts blend Portuguese and Spanish baroque elements with local Goan traditions. The uncensored verses celebrate convent life, critique local social norms, and affirm the nuns' community identity, exhibiting the M?nicas' musical talents and literary sensibilities.

Author: Daniel Michon
ISBN-10: 164959125X
ISBN-13: 9781649591258
Publisher: Iter Press
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2025
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
By Daniel Michon
By Daniel Michon
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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 M?nica, 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 M?nica, Goa, India, 1731-1734.

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