9789514108136 - Textualising the Siri Epic (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. About the Tulu oral epic called Siri. Tulu is a Dravidian language and an ethno-linguistic group in southern Karnataka, India. 695 pp. In English.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 695 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. How does an illiterate singer produce a long oral epic? What is the origin of his "text", available only for a fleeting moment at its performance? How can a multifaceted oral performance be transformed into a book? The primary oral textualisation and the secondary written codification of the Siri epic, 15,683 lines, are described in detail in the present volume on the basis of recent fieldwork among the speakers of Tulu, a Dravidian language, in southern Karnataka, India. The "oral author", Mr Gopala Naika, is one of the many talented singers of oral epics in Tulunaadu and a possession priest in rituals which use oral epics as their mythical charter and a source of mental therapy.