Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) - A Play from Colonial India by Gurajada Appa Rao


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ProductID: 31245 - Paperback - 368 Pages (Year: 2011)
Penguin ~ ISBN: 9780143066880

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First staged in 1892, Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered one of the greatest modern works of Telugu literature.

The first major play written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonial India’s effects on Indian society, it is filled with humour, biting social commentary, parody and masquerade. The plot revolves around an English-speaking dandy, a clever courtesan, a young widow, and an old man who wants to buy a very young girl as his wife.

Eminent Telugu scholar and literary critic Velcheru Narayana Rao’s English translation, with notes and a critical essay, makes Apparao’s work available to a new audience.

COMMENT:

"This translation is a work of art."
--- David Shulman

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR:

Velcheru Narayana Rao is Krishnadevaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. Along with coauthor David Shulman, he was the 2004 recipient of the A.K. Ramanujan Prize for Translation from the Association for Asian Studies for Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on Translation and Transliteration

Girls for Sale

I. Dramatis Personae

1. Act One
2. Act Two
3. Act Three
4. Act Four
5. Act Five
6. Act Six
7. Act Seven

II. The Play in Context: A Second Look at Apparao’s Kanyasulkam
III. Note on Names and Castes
IV. On Kinship and Friendship
V. Performing Kanyasulkam
VI. Card Game in Act Ficve, Scene Two
VII. Guide to Pronunciation
VIII. Proper Names with Diacritics
Notes

About the Author

Gurajada Appa Rao’s Telugu play Kanyasulkam was first staged in Vizianagaram on August 13, 1892, and even now, after more than a century, it continues to be performed occasionally in different town s and cities of Andhra Pradesh. The first edition of the play was published in 1897, but later it was revised and expanded by the author, and this recast version, published in 1909, has been reprinted many times throughout the twentieth century.

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