The “Poetic Chaos” of Gardens and Genres in Colonial Tbilisi
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8966939 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Paul Manning (0000-0002-3926-8536, Trent University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2023 |
| Volumen | 55 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 498-516 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2023-08-01 |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743823001095 |
| OpenAlex | W4386837612 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 2 |
| Referencias citadas | 9 |
One summer afternoon in Tbilisi, my friends Elizbari and Malkhazi, both native Tbilisians, and I bought some beer from a local store near Malkhazi's home in the hillside residential Tbilisi neighborhood of K'rts’anisi. For various reasons I can no longer recall, it would not do for us to drink in his home, so we randomly chose a deserted spot nearby: a patch of gravel next to a decrepit building with a large fallen tree, which afforded us a place to sit. Malkhazi surveyed our abject drinking spot, raised his beer in a heroic pose, and proclaimed: “ Ortach'alis baghshi mnakhe, vina var!” (In the gardens of Ortachala see me, who I am!). 1 We laughed at the absurd poetic reference. It was a famous line from a Persian-style Georgian poem by the noble romantic poet Grigol Orbeliani. It was a mukhambazi, a genre of poetry emblematic of “Old Tbilisi” city poetry associated with a nostalgic Georgian mythology of the nineteenth-century colonial city, centering on the island gardens of Ortachala, the site of drunken feasting of typical Tbilisian street peddlers called kinto s (Georgian k'int’o ). The stanza goes as such: In the gardens of Ortachala see me, who I am, In a happy-go-lucky feast see me, who I am! A toastmaster with a drinking bowl, see me, who I am! Well in a fistfight see me, who I am! Then you will fall in love with me, say, “You are precious!”
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Georgian · Literature · Mythology · Poetry · Romance · Stanza · SWORD · History · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
| Citas por año | 2 |
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| Intervalo de citas | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Altamente citado | No |