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The Sabdan Baatır Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History

The Sabdan Baatır Codex: Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History

Chagataev, Musa
Soltonoev, Belek
Dzhantaev, Shabdan

Hardcover

Series: Brill's Inner Asian Library, Book 28

Black American StudiesPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 9004230408
ISBN13: 9789004230408
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 23 2012
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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.

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