Revisiting the Experiential World of Women’s Bhakti Poetry

My recent research on an early female bhakti saint brought to the fore differences between her perspective as represented in poetry attributed and medieval biographer’s representation of concerns. Through that study, widespread academic use scholarship traditional biographies interpret saints became especially visible problematic me. In this experimental essay, I consider what patterns we might find if prioritize influential saints, navigating significant issues subjectivity, voice, utterance discern contours their devotional subjectivity authoritative nexus for conceptualizing expressing individual group devotion. contrast scholarly assurances are internally steadfast or they mainly troubled by external situations, argue voices realization diverse embodied experiences contestation generative a shared sense