TY - BOOK ED - Rahmoni, Ravshan ED - van den Berg, Gabrielle AB - The ancient Persian storytelling tradition has survived until the present day among the Tajik villages in the Gissar mountains of Uzbekistan. This book explores the story of Barzu and demonstrates that the historical Transoxania, since the time of Alexander the Great, has always been a melting pot of diverse shared cultures. In the village of Pasurxi, near Boysun in the Surxandaryo region of contemporary Uzbekistan, a vivid oral tradition exists on the basis of stories from the Persian Book of Kings or Šohnoma (Shahnama), composed more than a thousand years ago by the poet Firdavsi (Ferdowsi). These stories deal with the hero Barzu. The storytellers Jura Kamol and Mullo Ravšan composed two different versions of the story of Barzu in the Tajik as spoken in the Surxandaryo region. They used to tell their stories during evening gatherings in the village. DO - 10.24415/9789087281168 ID - OAPEN ID: 625758 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 982228281 KW - Literature KW - Story telling KW - Boysun KW - Derde KW - Etiquette in Indonesia KW - Inro KW - Iran KW - Jura KW - Rostam KW - Tajiks KW - Uzbeks L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/dad15626-2ccc-4a42-8dbd-08c17ebbda28/625758.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31703 PB - Leiden University Press PP - Leiden PY - 2013 SN - 9789087281168 SN - 978400601185 TI - The Story of Barzu : As Told by Two Storytellers from Boysun, Uzbekistan ER -