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Folktales of India

Folktales of India

Beck, Brenda E. F.
Claus, Peter J.
Goswami, Praphulladatta

Paperback

Series: Folktales of the World

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0226040836
ISBN13: 9780226040837
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Apr 15 1999
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A fascinating, wide-ranging collection of folk stories from one of the world's oldest civilizations Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas, and remote villages in north and south India, and the distinctive boundary regions of Kashmir, Assam, and Manipur. The tales in this collection emphasize universal human characteristics--truthfulness, modesty, loyalty, courage, generosity, and honesty. Each story is meant to be savored individually with special attention given to the great range of motifs presented and the many distinct narrative styles used. Folktales of India offers a superb anthology of India's bountiful narrative tradition.

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