Witness to Marvels

Witness to Marvels traces the development of a unique genre of Sufi-inspired Bengali romances called pir kathas, whose protagonists and plots are wholly fictive. For five centuries these fabulations have parodied indigenous and Hindu textual traditions. Both mimicking and mocking, these parodies ado...

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Main Author: Stewart, Tony K. (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: University of California Press 2019
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