The Šabdan Baatır Codex : Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History
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| Title: | The Šabdan Baatır Codex : Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History |
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| Description: | In The Šabdan Baatır Codex, Daniel Prior presents the first complete edition, translation, and interpretation of a unique manuscript of early twentieth-century Kirghiz poetry, which includes detailed accounts of nineteenth-century warfare. Dedicated to the chief Šabdan Baatır, the Codex occupies an illuminating position in a network of oral and written genres that encompassed epic poetry and genealogy, panegyric and steppe oral historiography; that echoed oral performance and aspired to print publishing. The Codex's fresh articulation of concepts of Kirghiz self-identification was incipiently national, yet remained couched in traditional forms. The Codex thus bridges the interval, often glossed over in cultural histories, between a supposedly archaic state of oral epic tradition and the “afterlife” of epics in modern ethno-nationalist projects. |
| Authors: | Daniel Prior |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Historiography--Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz literature--History and criticism, Epic literature, Kyrgyz--History and criticism |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In The Šabdan Baatır Codex, Daniel Prior presents the first complete edition, translation, and interpretation of a unique manuscript of early twentieth-century Kirghiz poetry, which includes detailed accounts of nineteenth-century warfare. Dedicated to the chief Šabdan Baatır, the Codex occupies an illuminating position in a network of oral and written genres that encompassed epic poetry and genealogy, panegyric and steppe oral historiography; that echoed oral performance and aspired to print publishing. The Codex's fresh articulation of concepts of Kirghiz self-identification was incipiently national, yet remained couched in traditional forms. The Codex thus bridges the interval, often glossed over in cultural histories, between a supposedly archaic state of oral epic tradition and the “afterlife” of epics in modern ethno-nationalist projects. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004230408 9789004237278 |
