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Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath - An Analysis and Translation of the Rajasthani Oral Narrative of Devnarayan (Hardcover, New)
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Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath - An Analysis and Translation of the Rajasthani Oral Narrative of Devnarayan (Hardcover, New)
Series: South Asia Research
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This book offers a detailed study of the oral narrative of Shri
Devnarayan along with the first English translation of this popular
Rajasthani folk narrative. The narrative extolling the deeds of
Lord Devnarayan is performed by itinerant singers during all night
vigils in front of a 9-meter long, elaborately painted cloth scroll
that depicts scenes and characters from the story. Aditya Malik
uses the narrative to explore and ask a range of innovative
questions relevant to the study of Indian folk culture and Hinduism
as a whole: How is orality conceptualized and practiced? What is
the relationship between spoken and visual signs? How do
Devnarayan's devotees create multiple discourses concerning
religion, community, and history within and though the medium of
the narrative? Malik's analysis suggests that the narrative
provides a framework for establishing linkages between different
communities, past and present, spoken word and visual image, as
well as contending religious ideologies. His interpretation is
interspersed with excerpts from interviews with devotees and
singers, other tales and texts, and observations from his field
research that together invoke the worlds created by the narrative.
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