TY  - GEN
AU  - Rahmoni,Ravshan
AU  - van den Berg,Gabrielle
AU  - Rahmoni,Ravshan
AU  - van den Berg,Gabrielle
TI  - The Story of Barzu : As Told by Two Storytellers from Boysun, Uzbekistan
SN  - 10.24415/9789087281168
PY  - 2013///0101
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Leiden University Press
KW  - Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literature
KW  - Story telling
KW  - Boysun
KW  - Derde
KW  - Etiquette in Indonesia
KW  - Inro
KW  - Iran
KW  - Jura
KW  - Rostam
KW  - Tajiks
KW  - Uzbeks
N1  - Open Access
N2  - The ancient Persian storytelling tradition has survived until the present day among the Tajik villages in the Gissar mountains of Uzbekistan. This book explores the story of Barzu and demonstrates that the historical Transoxania, since the time of Alexander the Great, has always been a melting pot of diverse shared cultures. In the village of Pasurxi, near Boysun in the Surxandaryo region of contemporary Uzbekistan, a vivid oral tradition exists on the basis of stories from the Persian Book of Kings or Šohnoma (Shahnama), composed more than a thousand years ago by the poet Firdavsi (Ferdowsi). These stories deal with the hero Barzu. The storytellers Jura Kamol and Mullo Ravšan composed two different versions of the story of Barzu in the Tajik as spoken in the Surxandaryo region. They used to tell their stories during evening gatherings in the village
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31703/1/625758.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31703/1/625758.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31703/1/625758.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30542
ER  -