The Sabdan Baatır Codex

Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History

470 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In The Sabdan Baatır Codex, Daniel Prior presents the first complete edition, translation, and interpretation of a unique manuscript of early twentieth-century Kirghiz poetry, which includes detailed accounts of nineteenth-century warfare. Dedicated to the chief Sabdan Baatır, the Codex occupies an illuminating position in a network of oral and written genres that encompassed epic poetry and genealogy, panegyric and steppe oral historiography; that echoed oral performance and aspired to print publishing. The Codex's fresh articulation of concepts of Kirghiz self-identification was incipiently national, yet remained couched in traditional forms. The Codex thus bridges the interval, often glossed over in cultural histories, between a supposedly archaic state of oral epic tradition and the "afterlife" of epics in modern ethno-nationalist projects.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Lyrik und Dichter
• ISBN: 9789004230408
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.11.2012
• Größe: 239 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Brill
• Herausgegeben von: Daniel Prior
• Übersetzung: Daniel Prior