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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... village was for me a momentous but purely serendipitous event . I have devoted the better parts of several precious fellowship years to crafting the translations , researching the origins , and thinking and writing about the meanings of ...
... village was for me a momentous but purely serendipitous event . I have devoted the better parts of several precious fellowship years to crafting the translations , researching the origins , and thinking and writing about the meanings of ...
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... village of Ghatiyali where I met Madhu Nath had nothing to do with women's perspectives or with oral traditions , Naths , or Gopi Chand . I had no expectation of finding a living performance tradition of Gopi Chand's tale , and had ...
... village of Ghatiyali where I met Madhu Nath had nothing to do with women's perspectives or with oral traditions , Naths , or Gopi Chand . I had no expectation of finding a living performance tradition of Gopi Chand's tale , and had ...
第 xix 頁
... village men , to follow particular guidelines in his transcription work . These included : write every sound each time just as you hear it ; don't standardize divergent pronunciations ; don't Hindi - ize local dialect . Nathu was ...
... village men , to follow particular guidelines in his transcription work . These included : write every sound each time just as you hear it ; don't standardize divergent pronunciations ; don't Hindi - ize local dialect . Nathu was ...
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... village of Ghatiyali . Madhu , although born in Ghatiyali , settled many years ago in another nearby village , Sadara . Therefore , although he celebrated life cycle rituals among his kinfolk in Ghatiyali , and periodically performed ...
... village of Ghatiyali . Madhu , although born in Ghatiyali , settled many years ago in another nearby village , Sadara . Therefore , although he celebrated life cycle rituals among his kinfolk in Ghatiyali , and periodically performed ...
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... village- Madhu performed , and I duly recorded , Gopi Chand's janmpatri or birth story . I was immediately intrigued and delighted : here was a living bard singing a story that was obviously about the same character as Temple's Punjabi ...
... village- Madhu performed , and I duly recorded , Gopi Chand's janmpatri or birth story . I was immediately intrigued and delighted : here was a living bard singing a story that was obviously about the same character as Temple's Punjabi ...
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