A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, RajasthanUniversity of California Press, 2023年7月28日 - 392 頁 Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis—a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism's view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing narratives, transmitting to Western readers the pleasures, moods, and interactive dimensions of a village bard's performance. Three introductory chapters and an interpretive afterword, together with an appendix on the bard's language by linguist David Magier, supply A Carnival of Parting with a full range of ethnographic, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Gold gives a frank and engaging portrayal of the bard Madhu Nath and her work with him. The tales are most profoundly concerned, Gold argues, with human rather than divine realities. In a compelling afterword, she highlights their thematic emphases on politics, love, and death. Madhu Nath's vital colloquial telling of Gopi Chand and Bharthari's stories depicts renunciation as inevitable and interpersonal attachments as doomed, yet celebrates human existence as a "carnival of parting." |
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... lives in texts as culturally diverse as the Songs of Milarepa ( poems of a Tibetan Buddhist saint ) and G. I. GurdjieFf's All and Everything ( a twentieth - century Armenian mystic's eccentric history of the cosmos ) . We massaged our ...
... lives in texts as culturally diverse as the Songs of Milarepa ( poems of a Tibetan Buddhist saint ) and G. I. GurdjieFf's All and Everything ( a twentieth - century Armenian mystic's eccentric history of the cosmos ) . We massaged our ...
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... lives , and I planned to study this not through translating folklore texts but rather through participant observation in the practice of pilgrimage ( Gold 1988 ) . The introduction to this book provides several sets of backgrounds to ...
... lives , and I planned to study this not through translating folklore texts but rather through participant observation in the practice of pilgrimage ( Gold 1988 ) . The introduction to this book provides several sets of backgrounds to ...
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... live with an elder brother already residing in nearby Sadara . His brother was pujarī or " worship priest " in Sadara's Shiva temple.2 The thakur or local ruler of Sadara and this would have been in the thirties when thakurs still ruled ...
... live with an elder brother already residing in nearby Sadara . His brother was pujarī or " worship priest " in Sadara's Shiva temple.2 The thakur or local ruler of Sadara and this would have been in the thirties when thakurs still ruled ...
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... live with him . " Madhu appeared to remember the years of his discipleship fondly , and no doubt selectively . He described eating two meals a day of festive treats for weeks at a stretch when he and his cousin were commissioned to ...
... live with him . " Madhu appeared to remember the years of his discipleship fondly , and no doubt selectively . He described eating two meals a day of festive treats for weeks at a stretch when he and his cousin were commissioned to ...
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... live music and theater , with no tickets required . On the other hand , in 1979- 81 the villagers had no TVs and few radios or tape recorders , while the nearest cinema was a costly three - hour journey distant . Any performance event ...
... live music and theater , with no tickets required . On the other hand , in 1979- 81 the villagers had no TVs and few radios or tape recorders , while the nearest cinema was a costly three - hour journey distant . Any performance event ...
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