Through the looking glass: the narrative performance of anarkali
Auteur :
Dad, Aisha
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674303317
Date de publication :
3 févr. 2026
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Informed by oral poetics, performance theory, and memory studies, Through the Looking Glass approaches Anarkali—the supposed lover of both the Mughal emperor Akbar and his son Jahangir— not as a historical enigma, but rather as a qissa, an oral narrative occupying a liminal and contentious space.