e." DOCUME1T RESUME ED 126 518 AUTHOR Wadley, Susan S., Ed. TITLE Folk Literature of South Asia. INSTITUTION. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Asian Studies Center. PUB DATE 75 NOTE 173p. JOURNAL CIT Journal of Sduth Asian Literature; v11 n1,2 Entire Issue,Fall, Winter, 1975 CS 202 849 EDRS PRICE MF -$0.83 Plus Postage. BC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Asian Studies; *Folk Culture; Folk Drama; Legends; Literary CriAcism; *Literaturei- Mythology; Non Western Civilization;, Poetry; Prose IDENTIFIERS' *Folk Literature ; ABSTRACT. / The collection of articles in this volume focuses an different kinds of folk literature from Bengal, Tamilnad, Bihar, Ijindi-speakingNorth India; and Nepal. An introductory article by S.S. *Wadley discUsses types of folk literature in Karimpur. The remaining articles are organized according to cultural themes: "The Lustful Stepmother in the Folklore of Northwestern India" by V.P. Vatlik and S. Vatuk; "Songs of Social Distance" by D. Jacobson; "North Indian Wedding Songs" by I.O. Henry; "A Praise-Poem for Hurugan" by B.E.F. Beck; "A Few Bengali Vaisnava Folk Songs" _by R.D. Munda; "The Mundane and Prosaic in Bengali Folk Songs" by E. Friedlander; "Selections from 'Jarigan,' the Folk Epic of Muslim Bengal" by M.F. Dunhain; "Twelve Jadur'Songs" by N. Zide; "Three Nepalese Jokes" by J. Fisher; and "Four ,Folk Tales of the Gorum" by A.R.K. (JM) 4 *********14******#**f*********************31444************************* * Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublised * * materials not available. from other sources1 ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the bes copy availa\ble.'Nevertheless, jtems of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affetts the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcOpy reproductions ERIC makes available * via the ERIC D,bcument Reproduction Servide (EDRS) . EDRS is not * 're onsible fdr the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supp by EDRS are'the best that can be made from the .original. ********** ************************************************************