Carnival of Parting The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand As Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan

Name: Carnival of Parting The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand As Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan
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ISBN: 9780520075351

ISBN-10: 0520075358

ISBN-13: 9780520075351

Edition: 1994

Authors: Ann Grodzins Gold

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Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center ofA Carnival of Partingare Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis--a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism's view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing narratives, transmitting to Western readers the pleasures, moods, and interactive dimensions of a village…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/19/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Ann Grodzins Gold is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Syracuse University.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Note on Transcription and Transliteration


Introduction: The Tales in Their Contexts



Madhu Nath and His Performance


First Encounters


Madhu Nath's Performance


Madhu Nath's Stories in Synopsis


Madhu Nath's Performances for Me


Translation in Practice and Theory


Pottery Lessons



Naths or Jogis in North India


Nath Renunciatory Traditions in Story and History


Nath Jatis



Naths in Folklore and the Folklore of the Naths


Bharthari and Gopi Chand


Uncoupling


The Tale of King Bharthari



Bharthari's Birth Story



Bharthari's Detachment



The Guru's Lesson


The Tale of King Gopi Chand



Gopi Chand's Birth Story



Gopi Chand Begs from Queen Patam De



Gopi Chand's Journey to Bengal



Instruction from Gorakh Nath


Afterword: Politics, Love, Death, and Destiny


Demographic Surges through Landscapes of Meaning


Unmaking Love


Mortality


Oral Performance and the Thick Writing of Fate


Appendix 1: The Language of the Bard



Appendix 2: Proper Nouns Transliterated


References


Index