The Contest of the Fruits
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- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2021
Summary
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 perfo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262542517 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026254251X |
| Author: | Slavs And Tatars, Guangtian Ha |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 284mm x 229mm |
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About The Author
Slavs And Tatars
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.
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