Witness to marvels Sufism and literary imagination
"Witness to Marvels traces the development of a unique genre of Sufi-inspired Bengali romances called pir kathas, whose protagonists and plots are wholly fictive. For five centuries these fabulations have parodied Indigenous and Hindu textual traditions. Both mimicking and mocking, these parodi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2019, [2019]©2019
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| Series: | Islamic Humanities
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Heavenly orchestrations : the world of the legendary pirs of Bengal
- The enchanting lives of the pirs : structures of narrative romance
- Subjunctive explorations : the parodic work of pir kath?
- Mapping the imaginaire : the conditions of possibility
- Manipulating the cosmic hierarchy : a practical act of conceptual blending
- Pragmatics of pir lath? : emplotment and extra-discursive effects
- Epilogue
- Includes bibliographical references and index