The Contest of the Fruits - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 026254251X ISBN 13: 9780262542517

Verlag: The MIT Press, 2021

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A satirical poem about the rivalry of various fruits becomes a point of departure for investigations of tolerance and identity in a pluralistic world.

The Contest of the Fruits takes a nineteenth-century Uyghur satirical poem as a departure point for investigations of language, politics, religion, humor, resilience, and resistance in a pluralistic world. Composed at the crossroads of multiple civilizations and empires and born of the Uyghurs' liminal position at the edges of Islam and the frontiers of China, "The Contest of the Fruits" captures a world in which borders are gateways rather than dividing lines. The poem, highly performative, embellished with verbal flourishes, and featuring the ribald rivalry of such fruits as mulberry, pomegranate, quince, and pear, may be the first Turkic rap battle.

The book, which accompanies a project by the art collective Slavs and Tatars, brings together artists, academics, poets, and performers to create a visually compelling volume that deploys different registers (high and low) to examine subjects often considered mutually exclusive (for example, religion and hip-hop). It offers essays by leading scholars and journalists that cover topics ranging from language politics to the prominence of Uyghur rappers in China. Shorter "pop-out" texts take a more tentacular approach to Uyghur culture, sampling poetry by diaspora Uyghur poets and discussing such subjects as calligraphy, Uyghur pop music, mäshräp, and the Sufi practice of Samāc.

Copublished with Haverford College

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Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China, known as Eurasia. They have had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Salt in Istanbul, Kunsthalle Zurich, and other venues. Publications include Crack Up--Crack Down, Mirrors for Princes, and Friendship of Nations. Guangtian Ha is Assistant Professor of Religion at Haverford College and the author of Fragile Transcendence: Sound and Saint in Sino-Sufism, to be published in September 2021. He is currently working on a new project that examines the entwinement of sex and slavery in the making of Islam in maritime Asia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 026254251X
• ISBN 13: 9780262542517
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: Ha Guangtian, Slavs And Tatars
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar