Chouboli and Other Stories

Name: Chouboli and Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780823234042

ISBN-10: 0823234045

ISBN-13: 9780823234042

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Christi Merrill, Vijaydan Detha

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The rollicking, folk-based tales of Rajasthani writer Vijay Dan Detha have been winning awards in India since the 1970s. Only recently, however, have they been available in English translation.Detha has a gift for selecting the most provocative tales he hears from his fellow villagers and recreating them in a literary form as engaging and daring as his oral sources. In one tale a ghost uses his powers to change a woman's sex so that she can stay married to the woman she loves. In another--recreated in film by Mani Kaul in the early seventies as Duvidha and more recently by Bollywood director Amol Palekar as the wildly successful Paheli--a ghost falls in love with a young bride and assumes…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 9/29/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

CHRISTI A MERRILL is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory at the University of Michigan.

Kailash Kabir is a poet from Rajasthan and the primary Hindi translator of the work of Vijaydan Detha. His translations between Hindi and Rajasthani have been published regularly by Indiaï¿½s Sahitya (literature) academy.