Riddles of Belonging : India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession.

Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at the details of contentious traditions often kept hiddenGwhether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought...

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Author / Creator: Merrill, Christi A.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
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