The Epic World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lothspeich, Pamela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes.

The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth.

The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 660
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000912203
• Artikelnr.: 69739074

Autorenporträt

Pamela Lothspeich is Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research centers on the Indian epics in modern literature, theatre, and film.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction Part I. Ways of Reading Epics 1. A Critical Race Studies Approach: Race and Racecraft in Apollonius's Argonautica Jackie Murray 2. A Postcolonial Studies Approach: From Fanon's Revolutionary Literature to Glissant's Relation Sneharika Roy 3. An Ecocritical Approach: Early Modern English Epic Possibilities Chris Barrett 4. An Affect Studies Approach: Reading Non-Normative Masculinities in Homer's Iliad Melissa Mueller 5. A Network Approach: Tracking Female Power in Seven Epic Narratives Pádraig MacCarron, Máirín MacCarron, Sílvio Dahmen, Joseph Yose, and Ralph Kenna Part II. A Sample of Ancient Iterations (The Beginnings-1000 CE) 6. The Epic Bible: Authority and Identity in the Face of Adversity Shawna Dolansky and Sarah Cook 7. Gilgamesh and Tiamat Abroad: (Mis-)Reading Mesopotamian Epic Karen Sonik 8. (Re)Inventing an Epic: Reading the Tamil Cilappatik
ram across Time Morgan J Curtis 9. Sri Lanka's Mah
va
sa, The Great Chronicle Kristin Scheible 10. The 'Epic of the Anglo-Saxons': The Many Cultural Streams of Beowulf María José Gómez Calderón 11. Ecological Colonialism in Vergil's Aeneid Laura Zientek Part III. "Middle" Period Re-castings and Innovations (1000-1850 CE) 12. Sunjata Fasa and the Oral Epic Tradition of Mali Kassim Kone 13. Kingship and Power in Sirat Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle Helen Blatherwick 14. A Battle of Equals: Rustam and Isfandiar in Illustrated Manuscripts of the Sh
hn
ma Behrang Nabavi Nejad 15. From Oghuz Khan to Exodus: Lineage, Heroism, and Migration in Oghuz Turk Tradition Ali Aydin Karamustafa 16. The "Hindu" Epics? Telling the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in Premodern South Asia Sohini Sarah Pillai 17. Trickster as Epic Narrator in Malaysia's Hikayat Hang Tuah Sylvia Tiwon 18. Connecting with Ancestors: "Imported" and Indigenous Epics in Southeast Asia Adrian Vickers 19. Epic Contestations: What Makes an Epic in Multi-ethnic China? Mark Bender 20. Whose Epic is it, Anyway? Gesar and the Myth of National Epic Natasha Mikles 21. Ode to Mongolian Heroism: The Oirat Epic Jangar Chao Gejin 22. Placation, Memorial, and History in Japan's The Tale of the Heike and Beyond Elizabeth Oyler 23. Guaman Poma's Epic Letter: A Complex Salvo against Spanish Colonialism in the Andes Scotti M. Norman 24. Human Owls and Political Sorcery in the Anales de Cuauhtitlan Martín Vega Olmedo 25. An "Epic of Sorts": Gaspar de Villagrá and His Impossible Epic of the New Mexico Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez 26. Gender Performance and Gendered Warriors in the Albanian Epic Anna Di Lellio and Arbnora Dushi 27. Slavic Oral-Traditional Epic in the Ottoman Ecumene Robert Romanchuk 28. Empire and Resistance in South Slavic and Romanian Oral Epic Poetry Margaret Beissinger Part IV. New Forms and Foundational Stories (1850-present) 29. "It Shall be Ruled by Swallows": The Epic of the Zulu King Shaka Phiwokuhle Mnyandu 30. Lithoko: Continuity, Change, and the Future of South Sotho Praise Poetry David M. M. Riep 31. "Man is the Center": Centripetal Power in the Malagasy Epic Tale of Ibonia Hallie Wells and Vony Ranalarimanana 32. In Service of Authenticity: Epic in Central Africa under Colonialism Jonathon Repinecz 33. Female Leadership and Nation Building: The West African Epics Yennenga and Sarraounia Mariam Konaté 34. "The Return of Rome": Empire, Epic, and Twentieth-Century Italian Imperialism in Africa Samuel Agbamu 35. Empire and Resistance in Kazakh Oral Epic: The Case of S
tbek Batyr Gabriel McGuire 36. Tolstoy's War and Peace: National Epic on Page, Stage, and Screen Julie A. Buckler 37. Ecocriticism and Indigenous Anti-epics of China Robin Visser 38. Anti-epic as National Epic: Uses and Misuses of Epic in Argentina's Martín Fierro Nicolás Suárez 39. To Keep the Sky from Falling: The Epic of Indigenous Environmentalism in Brazil Tracy Devine Guzmán 40. An Epic Struggle in Mesoamerican Indigenous Literatures: Recovering Written Forms of Expression Arturo Arias 41. African/American (Heroic) Epic: Lee's Do the Right Thing as Critique, Caution, Comedy Gregory E. Rutledge 42. Epic Sound and Whiteness in Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle Alexander Rothe Index