ENGLISH

Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India

By Gurajada Apparao

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0253219132, 9780253219138, 9780253116932
LCC
PL4780.9.A5957 K313 2007
Open Library ID
OL10228381M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
991 kB (1014423 bytes)
Pages
248\245
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered the greatest modern work of Telugu literature and the first major drama written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonialism's effects on Indian society. Filled with humor, biting social commentary, parody, and masquerade, the plot revolves around a clever courtesan, a young widow, and a very old man who wants to buy as his wife a very young girl. Velcheru Narayana Rao has prepared the first idiomatic English translation, with notes and a critical essay. Itself a masterpiece of Indian literature in translation, this edition makes Apparao's work available to new audiences.

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