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Mahmood U.R. Farooqi: Tale Tellers: Dastangoyee, The Culture of Storytelling in Urdu
Mahmood U.R. Farooqi: Tale Tellers: Dastangoyee, The Culture of Storytelling in Urdu
This study seeks to explore dastans, oral fictional narratives of epical length that flourished in Urdu between the 18th and 20th centuries. While they drew on an older tradition in Arabic and Persian, the Urdu storytellers turned what were often one or two volumes of longish stories into adventures of mammoth proportions.