Anway Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Culture Studies at the University of Burdwan, India.

• Introduction 1. The Human Death, the Divine Corpse 2. Reinterpreting the Myth of Sati: The Devoted Husband and the Corpse of His Wife 3. Dismemberment as Pluralization: The Scattering of Sati’s Body Parts and the Self-Pluralization of Shiva 4. The Shakti Pithas: The Active Corpse, the Immanent Shakti and the Sacred Geography of Shaktism 5. Shava Sadhana: Who Is the Corpse? Shiva or Shakti? 6. Placing the Devi’s Corpse on the Shore of a Thousand Streams: A Multicultural and Comparativist Reading of the Devi as Corpse 7. Shava-rupa and Vishva-rupa: The Corpse Form and the Cosmic Form of the Devi Appendix I: A Brief Outline of the Narrative of Sati in the Mahabhagavata Upapurana Appendix II: The Narrative of Sati in the Brihaddharmapurana: A Summary Appendix III: An Outline of the Narrative of Sati in Bharatchandra’s Annadamangal Kavya

Anway Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Culture Studies at the University of Burdwan, India.

• Introduction 1. The Human Death, the Divine Corpse 2. Reinterpreting the Myth of Sati: The Devoted Husband and the Corpse of His Wife 3. Dismemberment as Pluralization: The Scattering of Sati’s Body Parts and the Self-Pluralization of Shiva 4. The Shakti Pithas: The Active Corpse, the Immanent Shakti and the Sacred Geography of Shaktism 5. Shava Sadhana: Who Is the Corpse? Shiva or Shakti? 6. Placing the Devi’s Corpse on the Shore of a Thousand Streams: A Multicultural and Comparativist Reading of the Devi as Corpse 7. Shava-rupa and Vishva-rupa: The Corpse Form and the Cosmic Form of the Devi Appendix I: A Brief Outline of the Narrative of Sati in the Mahabhagavata Upapurana Appendix II: The Narrative of Sati in the Brihaddharmapurana: A Summary Appendix III: An Outline of the Narrative of Sati in Bharatchandra’s Annadamangal Kavya

Anway Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Culture Studies at the University of Burdwan, India.

• Introduction 1. The Human Death, the Divine Corpse 2. Reinterpreting the Myth of Sati: The Devoted Husband and the Corpse of His Wife 3. Dismemberment as Pluralization: The Scattering of Sati’s Body Parts and the Self-Pluralization of Shiva 4. The Shakti Pithas: The Active Corpse, the Immanent Shakti and the Sacred Geography of Shaktism 5. Shava Sadhana: Who Is the Corpse? Shiva or Shakti? 6. Placing the Devi’s Corpse on the Shore of a Thousand Streams: A Multicultural and Comparativist Reading of the Devi as Corpse 7. Shava-rupa and Vishva-rupa: The Corpse Form and the Cosmic Form of the Devi Appendix I: A Brief Outline of the Narrative of Sati in the Mahabhagavata Upapurana Appendix II: The Narrative of Sati in the Brihaddharmapurana: A Summary Appendix III: An Outline of the Narrative of Sati in Bharatchandra’s Annadamangal Kavya