Girish Karnad: History and Folklore

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The development of history as the written discourse came into existence for displaying history of man and his origin as home sapiens. Anthropologically, the incidents and events in the past were interpreted through myths, folk tales and the oral tradition. The development of nature and the development of history remain side by side and there is also a close relationship between nature and folklore. In India there one hardly sees the annals and the chronological arrangement of history except the tradition which existed and exists in the folk-memory of the people enmasse; History is not cyclic but predominantly linear while folk-memory is cyclic and dynamic. Karnad uses the sources of history and folklore in his plays just to reveal the sociocentric matrixes and its impact on human relationships. The present book apart from Introduction includes nine sub titles out of its seven core chapters. The three historical plays, Tughlaq, Tale-Danta and The Dreams of Tipu Sultan bring into being the historicity of history, vis-à-vis, the social, political and humanitarian concerns.Tughlaq with its historical facts and histrionics, explicates, some political issues of Nehruvian era. Tale-Danda with the charismatic personality of Basavanna analyses the social and religious reforms. The Dreams of Tipu Sultan brings into light the frescoes of history in order to show the distinction between Indian sense of tradition and the written scroll of history. The plays such Hayavadana and Flowers represent the folklore and the oral tradition of literature. Female-centric in their ideologies, these plays reveal the complicated world of human relationships and the cultural configurations. The remaining two plays, Broken Images and Wedding Album disperse the academic and social matrix. Broken Images as a draatic monologue questions the case of plagiaristic disputes of a literary text and the dintinction between English and Indian languages; Wedding Album works out the fibrous motifs and deals with the issues of social disintegration and the evasiveness of cultural values.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Om Prakash Budholia

Om Prakash Budholia, Assistant Professor in the Department of Postgraduate Studies and Research in English, Govt. K.R.G. College, an autonomous College of Jiwaji University, Gwalior, has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate classes for the last twenty-two years. He holds his Ph.D.degree from Jiwaji University, Gwalior (M.P.) He has participated in many national Seminars and Conferences. He is an Assistant Editor of the scholarly literary journal, Points of View. He is also on the Board of Advisors for an International literary journal, The Quest. Till date, Dr. Budholia has published many research papers and articles on English Literature, Language, Comparative Literature and Indian Writing in English in various scholarly journals and anthologies. His work includes: George Eliot: Art and Vision in Her Novels (1999, B.R. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi).

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Title
Girish Karnad: History and Folklore
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788176467872
Length
viii+206p., Bibliography; index; 23cm.
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