The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu

by Pasha M Khan

Book Overview

The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of "romances" (qissah)-tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Using literary genre theory, author Pasha M. Khan points to the worldviews underlying the popularity of Urdu and Persian romances, before pre-existing Islamicate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814345999
• ISBN13: 9780814345993
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"