It takes the average reader 3 hours and 57 minutes to read Listen to the Heron's Words by Gloria Goodwin Raheja
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words—and women's expressive genres more generally—criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's...
Listen to the Heron's Words by Gloria Goodwin Raheja is 234 pages long, and a total of 59,436 words.
This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 24 minutes to read Listen to the Heron's Words aloud.
Listen to the Heron's Words is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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