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From Amir Hamzah to Chandrakanta--
How Long a Journey? Saturday April 20,
2013, 10:30-3:30
Columbia University, Knox Hall, room 208 =========== The workshop is sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University. It is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required: *REGISTRATION FORM* =========== Workshop schedule: 10:00-10:30 coffee 10:30-12:30: Amir Hamzah readings and discussion 12:30-1:30: lunch 1:30-3:30: Chandrakanta readings and discussion =========== STUDY MATERIALS FOR THE WORKSHOP (copies of selected parts of this material will be made available at the workshop itself and will be read and discussed)
Deeksha
Gajbhiye, *some high points in Chandrakanta* Arthur Dudney, *"Keeping the
Magic Alive: How Devakanandan Khatri's Chandrakanta,
the First Hindi Best-seller, Navigates Modernity and
the Fantastical" (2009)* Deeksha
Gajbhiye, *"Candrakanta:
Bringing the Dastan Closer Home" (2011)* Aman Kumar, *"Chandrakanta and Society" (2011)* Pasha M. Khan, *"A Handbook
for Storytellers: the Tiraz ul-akhbar and the Qissa Genre"
(2010)* Francesca Orsini, *"Chandrakanta and
Early Hindi Fiction in Banaras"*, from Print and Pleasure:
Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in
Colonial North India (New Delhi: Permanent
Black, 2009) Frances W. Pritchett, *an online overview of
the Hamzah cycle and the Urdu dastan tradition
(1991)* FWP, "Women, Death, and Fate: Sexual Politics in the Dastan-e Amir Hamzah." In: Bridging Worlds: Studies on Women in South Asia. Sally J. Sutherland, ed. Berkeley: University of California, Center for South Asian Studies, 1990, pp. 71-95: *on this site*. FWP, "The Dastan Revival: An Overview," *AUS 1990* FWP, "Emperor of
India: Landhaur bin Sadan in the Hamza Cycle.” In: Urdu
and Muslim South Asia: Studies in Honour of Ralph
Russell. Christopher Shackle, ed. London: School
of Oriental and African Studies, 1989, pp. 67-75: *on
this site*. FWP, "Kaukab's Magic
Powers: Strategies for Dastan Translation," *AUS
1987* FWP, "A Magic Combat
from the Tilism-e hoshruba," India International
Centre Quarterly 11,4 (Dec. 1984), pp. 379-384: *on
this site*. With the *Urdu
text* here. FWP, "The Raw and the Refined: Comedy in the Urdu Dastan Tradition." An early conference paper that never actually got published: *on this site*
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