Orality And Performance: A Study Of The Revival Of Dastangoi

<p>The book Orality and Performance: A Study of the Revival of Dastangoi explores the recent revival of the dastangoi a form of oral storytelling in Urdu. This form was historically prevalent in Persian and later became an Urdu cultural form in the Indian context revealed that the dastangoi underwent numerous transformations in terms of medium form and content from the 16th 19th 20th and 21st centuries. The use of illustrations to accompany the narrations appeared and disappeared over the ages only to have returned in the form of graphic fiction recently.</p>