Information AboutHamzanama |
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| indian painting | |
| oral narrative | |
| 16th century paintings | |
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The Hamzanama was designed to augment a story-telling performance of the Adventures Of Hamza . This romance originated more than 1,000 years ago, probably in Persia, and subsequently spread throughout the Islam ic world in oral and written forms. The adventures of Hamza never became defined by a canonical written text. The Hamzanama supports a broad world of possibilities for story-telling and seems to have been created to better enable diverse subjects to make sense of persons like themselves within the world of the romance. REFERENCE Seyller, John (2002), ''The Adventures of Hamza, Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India'' (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution). (Contains the most complete set of reproductions of Hamzanama paintings and text translations.) EXTERNAL LINKS
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