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" While tales that feature princes who go off on quests for the golden bird in the emerald tree invariably end in wedding bells, tales with women at the center of action almost never do so. The women meet their husbands and are married formally or informally... "
Public Faces, Private Lives: Community and Individuality in South India - Page 18
by Mattison Mines - 1994 - 244 pages
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Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions

Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, Margaret Ann Mills - 1994 - 512 pages
...woman-centered tales. Such tales share special characteristics. While tales that feature princes who go oft" on a quest for the golden bird in the emerald tree...real story, usually nothing but trouble, begins. In this matter, they are unlike European tales of the Cinderella or Snow White type, which always end...
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Telling Tales: Children's Literature in India

Amit Dasgupta (Diplomat) - 1995 - 174 pages
...tale. Such tales share special characteristics. While tales that feature princes who go off on quests for the golden bird in the emerald tree invariably end in wedding bells, tales with women at the centre of action almost never do so. The women meet their husbands and are married formally or informally...
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