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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 December 2016
... © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The translator thanks Urmila Bhirdikar for her inputs. TULSI PARAB
Four Poems by Tulsi Parab
Translated by Aniket Jaaware
Subhash Night Middle School, Third Period...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 147–150.
Published: 01 August 1991
... Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991).
Two poems of Sivaramani - Translated from Tamil
With an introduction by Sitralega Maunaguru
The two poems published below were written by Sivaramani, who killed herself on May 19...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (2): 27–30.
Published: 01 August 1989
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 370–380.
Published: 01 August 2022
...William R. Pinch Abstract In this essay William R. Pinch probes whether and how we might understand early Hindi poetry as a form of history, a theme that Allison Busch explored in a series of essays. His focus is on two late eighteenth-century poems that Allison, Dalpat Rajpurohit, and Pinch...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 476–491.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., and it is borne through a particular relationship to temporality. It draws this claim from three sources across Mīrājī’s literary corpus: his essay titled “About my Poems” (“Apnī Naẓmon Ke Bāre Men”); his literary critical essay on Sanskrit philosophers of aesthetics titled “Theories on Rasa” (“Ras Ke Naz̤ariye...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 437–446.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Shiv Subramaniam Abstract While many poems in the South Asian literary archive cannot be classified as stories, it is less clear whether they can be meaningfully classified as lyrics. This article suggests that the lyric is indeed a meaningful concept by proposing a feature that short, nonnarrative...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 185–193.
Published: 01 August 2021
.... Such policies aimed at silencing the nighttime recitation of poems known in the Wolof language of Senegambia as xasida (and referred to by French administrators as chants religieux ). Derived from the Arabic term for “ode” ( qaṣīda ), such poems formed a key component of the liturgy of Senegal's expanding Sufi...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Wandana Sonalkar Sonalkar's piece is a tribute to the late poet Tulsi Parab and serves as an introduction to the English translations of four of Parab's poems. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Tulsi Parab poetry Marathi Bombay leftist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 470–476.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Amiya Dev Dev’s article discusses the Mahābhārata as world literature in the context of the epic tradition, including Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied ( The Song of the Nibelungs ). © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The M a h...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 356–361.
Published: 01 August 2022
...). Sabalsingh Chauhan's seventeenth-century Mahabharat is a bhakti (devotional) retelling of the Mahabharata epic. In the prologue of the sixteenth book of his Mahabharat , Chauhan describes himself performing his poem in Delhi before Aurangzeb and a king named Mitrasen. He also praises Mitrasen in the prologue...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 460–475.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Jane Mikkelson Abstract This article recovers a theory of poetry articulated by the Indian poet laureate Abul Fayz Fayzi (d. 1595) in “The White Tide of Dawn” (“Tabashir-i subh”), the Persian prose preface to his collected poems. Fayzi's oblique style of thought wanders through shifting metaphors...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 447–459.
Published: 01 December 2024
... navigate these demands on the self and its representation. With an analysis of formal and rhetorical features, mainly apostrophe and the imperative voice, as well as a consideration of Iqbal's philosophy of time and the representation of temporality in the lyric, one can see how the poem reorients...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 492–507.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of using South Asian styles of literary criticism for both reading individual poems and theorizing genre. It proposes that continued research on comparative literary criticisms is productive for mediating the current methodological demands of area studies and comparative literary studies. 75. Bhavani...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 263–274.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Lucy Graham This essay examines a hypothetical supplement to Rudyard Kipling's famous poem “If—” scripted by the judge during the Jacob Zuma rape trial in 2006. It places this into conversation with State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature (2012) and argues for the importance...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 33–44.
Published: 01 August 2004
... suitable for emotional expression
making the poem more accessible for immediate appre- through singing. The Kavitavali is a devotional work
ciation, disciplined metrical form, and a hint of a more written not in padas but in the kabitt form. The impor-
personal voice largely contributed to the success...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 433–436.
Published: 01 December 2024
... be fruitful to study them together. Among the questions that poems of such genres consistently raise are the following: Who is speaking? To whom? Where and when are these utterances made? Is there a special kind of thinking that motivates their composition? Why do authors write nonnarrative poems instead...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 73–81.
Published: 01 August 2004
... genre.3 The shahrashub was originally an appellation
people that have otherwise vanished without a trace for a beautiful beloved in a lyric poem, but also a short
from historical memory. In the Indo-Persian context, bawdy lyric addressed to a young boy who is engaged in
poets affiliated with patrons...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 100–111.
Published: 01 August 2002
...).
The scriptural status of the Qur’an backed by the ortho- Rumi’s Poems
dox dogma concerning it being “the uncreated word of God” Rumi inserted innumerable references to the Qur’an
lends it a unique position within Islamic religious and literary throughout his poetry either by direct quotation or by allu...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 74.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Alamgir Hashmi Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz . Naomi Lazard, tr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1988. 133 pages. Hardback $20.00 (Paperback $10.00) Lahore: Vanguard Books Ltd. Hardback Rs. 150. Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 246–253.
Published: 01 August 2003
... narrator correspond to this relationship.
relationship with Shams—a mysterious dervish whom In Nay Namih, the cry of the reed permeates the
he met in Konya in 1244—had a formative influence on poem with its song of ecstasy even as it recalls a fateful
his life and his poetry.5 Rumi considered Shams...
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