Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India

Tellings and Texts

6. A Handbook for Storytellers: The Ṭirāz al-akhbār and the Qissa Genre

Khan offers a philosophical and critical study of a Persian performative genre, bringing contemporary theory together with Persianate understandings of performance, truth and mendacity.

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6. A Handbook for Storytellers: The Ṭirāz al-akhbār and the Qissa Genre

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Pasha M. Khan