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Paperback The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu Book
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ISBN: 0814345999

ISBN13: 9780814345993

The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu

(Part of the The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies Series)

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Reconstructs Indian storytellers' lives and performance methods while recovering the marginalized worldview that popularized their art form.

The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu is a monograph on the rise and fall in popularity of "romances" (qissah)--tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from the sixteenth century...

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