بلوچی دستانغ ءَ کسمانک ءِ دروشم

Abstract

Dastānag is one of unique genres of Balochi folk poetry, which contains not only songs of joy but the events of sorrows, the scenography of war, attributes of love and hate, in fact all kinds of human emotions and culture are well-defined in Dastānag. Every action and every practical step of Baloch society whether in war or peace taken as scenic formation, landscape, site, time and setting as well as take shape of complete story by creating physical, perpetual and emotional context in Dastānag. Among various characteristics, the dramatic features of Dastānag made it separates from all forms of folk poetry. Action, plot, characters, story, climax, movement, time, themes and diction, indeed all the dramatic features are present in Dastānag. This paper is an investigation of dramatic features of Dastānag. For this purpose, ten different types of Dastānag of different authors were studied and tried to extract out dramatic features of Dastānag.