Himalayan voices : an introduction to modern Nepali literature / / translated and edited by Michael James Hutt

• Autore: Hutt Michael James
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1991]; ©1991
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 891/.49
• Soggetto topico: Authors, Nepali - 20th century; Short stories, Nepali; Nepali poetry - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Nepal Literary collections
• Soggetto non controllato: 1900s; 20th century; authors; caste system; civil disobedience; collected work; contemporary literature; eastern world; english translation; gender studies; government; himalayan; himalayas; literary analysis; literary criticism; modern literature; nepal; nepalese literature; nepali authors; nepali literature; nepali poets; nepali; non western literature; poetry collection; poetry translation; poetry; political; politics; short story; social change; social justice; translation; womens rights; world literature; writers
• Altri autori: HuttMichael (Michael J.)
• Note generali: Translated from Nepali.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-323) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. THE POETS OF NEPAL -- PART TWO. SELECTED SHORT STORIES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX ; pt. 1. Poets of Nepal: [Selected poetry of] Lekhnāth Paudyāl. Bālkrishna Sama. Lakshmīprasād Devkotā. Siddhicharaṇ Shreshṭha. Kedār Mān "Vyathit". Gopālprasād Rimāl. Mohan Koirālā. Bairāgī Kāinlā. Pārijāt. Bhūpi Sherchan. Bānīrā Giri. Bhairava Aryāl. Haribhakta Kaṭuvāl. Ìshwar Ballabh. Hem Hamāl. Krishnabhūshan Bal. Bimal Nibhā. Ashesh Malla. Mīnbahādur Bishṭa. Avināsh Shreshṭha. pt. 2. Selected short stories: Blaze in the straw / Guruprasād Mainālī -- Soldier ; To the lowlands / Bishweshwar Prasād Koirālā -- Will he ever return? ; Māujang Bābusāheb's coat / Bhavānī Bhikshu -- Murderer / Shivkumār Rāī -- Āndhī Kholā / Daulat Bikram Bishṭha -- Sunglasses ; Prisoner and the dove / Bijay Malla -- Splendid buffalo / Ramesh Bikal. ; Half-closed eyes of the Buddha and the slowly setting sun / Shankar Lāmichhāné -- Mainā's mother is just like us / Indra Bahādur Rāī -- Sweater for brother-in-law / Poshaṇ Pāndé -- It depends upon your point of view / Tāriṇī Prasād Koirālā -- Husband / Premā Shāh -- Telegram on the table ; Relationship / Parashu Pradhān -- Fire / Dhruba Chandra Gautam -- Small fish squats by the Dhobī Kholā / Manu Brājākī-- Living death / Kishor Pahāḍī.
• Sommario/riassunto: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today. An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature-poetry and the short story-this work profiles eleven of Nepal's most distinguished poets and offers translations of more than eighty poems written from 1916 to 1986. Twenty of the most interesting and best-known examples of the Nepali short story are translated into English for the first time by Michael Hutt. All provide vivid descriptions of life in twentieth-century Nepal. Although the days when Nepali poets were regularly jailed for their writings have passed, until 1990 the strictures of various laws governing public security and partisan political activity still required writers and publishers to exercise a certain caution. In spite of these conditions, poetry in Nepal remained the most vital and innovative genre, in which sentiments and opinions on contemporary social and political issues were frequently expressed. While the Nepali short story adapted its present form only during the early 1930's, it has rapidly developed a surprisingly high degree of sophistication. These stories offer insights into the workings of Nepali society: into caste, agrarian relations, social change, the status of women, and so on. Such insights are more immediate than those offered by scholarly works and are conveyed by implication and assumption rather than analysis and exposition. This book should appeal not only to admirers of Nepal, but to all readers with an interest in non-Western literatures. Himalayan Voices establishes for the first time the existence of a sophisticated literary tradition in Nepal and the eastern Himalaya.
• Titolo autorizzato: Himalayan voices
• ISBN: 0-520-91026-5; 1-282-35572-4; 9786612355721; 0-585-13081-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495862503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Voices from Asia ; ; volume 2.