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Needle at the Bottom of the Sea – Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides: World Literature in Translation

Autor Tony K. Stewart, Ayesha A. Irani
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2023
"Access Bengal's secret heart through this wondrous book. Travel deep into the forest and peek beyond the delta's edge: balancing scholarly rigor with storytelling elan, Tony Stewart's tidal tales with their fantastic cast of boundary-crossing characters shed unexpected and much-needed light on the relationship between Bengal, Islam, and the Indian Ocean world."--Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Infosys Prize winner and author, Partition's Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971, and Modern South Asia

"These subtly analyzed and beautifully translated tales represent a major accomplishment, revealing a sophisticated understanding of interreligious and intercaste relations in the register of the marvelous."--Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford

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ISBN-13: 9780520388932
ISBN-10: 0520388933
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 127 x 205 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: University of California Press
Seria World Literature in Translation


Notă biografică

Tony K. Stewart is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University and a specialist in the early modern literatures of the Bengali-speaking world. His most recent work is Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination, winner of the 2021 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.