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Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling /

This book presents an ethnopoetic translation and an interpretation of an evening of story­telling which took place in rural Afghanistan in 1975. Three years before the Marxist coup, two Muslim elders from Herat province were asked by a Marxist subgovernor to spend an evening telling traditional sto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mills, Margaret A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edición:Reprint 2016
Colección:Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series ; 12
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • 1. Where We Were
  • 2. What Gets Said
  • 3. Khalīfah Karīm, "Mulla Mongol the Martyr"
  • 4. Khalīfah Karīm, "Rasūl's Mother"
  • 5. Ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "Ten Qerān"1
  • 6. Ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "Salīm the Jeweller"
  • 7. Khalīfah Karīm, " 'Ādel Khān 'the Just' "
  • 8. Ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "Mahmūd of Ghaznī and the Thieves"
  • 9. Ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "The Old Thief with Five Sons"
  • 10. Ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "Women's Tricks"
  • 11. "Fill a Pipe for the Ākhond!": The Ākhond and the Rabbi of Herat
  • 12. Ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "That Little Donkey and That Little Door" and "If/But"
  • 13. Ākhond Mulla Mahmūd, "Black and White"
  • 14. Khalīfah Karīm, "The Corrupt and the Good"
  • 15. Khalīfah Karīm, "The Ill Fortune of the City of Rūm"
  • 16. "I speak with each according to his understanding..."
  • Appendix 1: Transliteration Sample
  • Appendix 2: Glossary
  • Appendix 3: Motif and Tale Type Index
  • Bibliography
  • Index