Thibaut d'Hubert (Assistant Professor of South Asian Language and C

In the Shade of the Golden Palace

Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan

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Produktbeschreibung

In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. This book is a unique guide for readers of Middle Bengali poetry, a detailed study of the cultural history of the frontier region of Arakan, and an original contribution to the poetics of South Asian literatures.

Produktdetails

• South Asia Research
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780190860332
• ISBN-10: 0190860332
• Artikelnr.: 49297697

Autorenporträt

Thibaut d'Hubert is an assistant professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements * Map of Arakan and eastern South Asia in the seventeenth century * Introduction: Poetics in the margins * Chapter 1: The formation of Bengali literature in Arakan (ca. 1430-1638) * Chapter 2: Literary urbanity in Mrauk U * Chapter 3: New beginnings:
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ol's early career in Mrauk U * Chapter 4
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ol's poetry and Mrauk U's political turmoil * Chapter 5:
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ol's poetics: when locality rhymes with originality * Chapter 6: Indo-Afghan historical imaginaries and the romance genre * Chapter 7: Lyric poetry and desi aesthetics in eastern South Asia * Conclusion: Middle Bengali poetics and the multilingual literary history of Bengal * Bibliography * Appendix 1: Summaries of
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ol's Padmavati and the story of the goldsmith's wife * a. Summary of
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ol's Padmavati * b. The story of the goldsmith's wife in Sayphulmuluk Badiujjamal * Appendix 2: Analytical tables of
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ol's songs * Appendix 3: Original texts of the Middle Bengali and Old Maithili songs * Appendix 4: A Persian appraisal of
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ol's life and works * Index