ISBN:
0520058631
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0520062922
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Speak, Bird, Speak Again : Palestinian Arab Folktales
DDC:
398.2095694
Keywords:
Tales Palestine
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Palestinian Arabs Folklore
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Folk literature, Arabic Translations into English
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Palestine
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Anthologie
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Palästina
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Volkserzählung
Abstract:
The forty-five tales included in this volume were selected on the basis of their popularity and the excellence of their narration from approximately two hundred tales collected on cassette tapes between 1978 and 1980 in various parts of Palestine the Galilee (since 1948 part of the state of Israel), the West Bank, and Gaza. The criterion of popularity reflects our intention to present the tales heard most frequently by the majority of the Palestinian people. Both our own life-long familiarity with this material and the opinions of the raconteurs themselves helped us to assess a tale's popularity. We made a point of asking the tellers to narrate the tales heard most often in folktale sessions of the past, and in most cases we selected only those tales for which we had more than one version.
Abstract:
Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respective expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these tales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture.As native Palestinians, the authors are well-suited to their task. Over the course of se
Description / Table of Contents:
15. ŠahinAfterword; The Quest for the Spouse; 16. The Brave Lad; 17. Gazelle; 18. Lolabe; Afterword; Group II: Family; Brides and Bridegrooms; 19. The Old Woman Ghouleh; 20. Lady Tatar; 21. Šoqak Boqak!; 22. Clever Hasan; 23. The Cricket; Afterword; Husbands and Wives; 24. The Seven Leavenings; 25. The Golden Rod in the Valley of Vermilion; 26. Minjal; 27. Im Eše; Afterword; Family Life; 28. Chick Eggs; 29. The Ghouleh of Trans-Jordan; 30. Bear-Cub of the Kitchen; 31. The Woman Whose Hands Were Cut Off; 32. Nayyis (Little Sleepy One); Afterword; Group III: Society
Description / Table of Contents:
33. Im Awwad and the Ghouleh34. The Merchant's Daughter; 35. Pomegranate Seeds; 36. The Woodcutter; 37. The Fisherman; Afterword; Group IV: Environment; 38. The Little She-Goat; 39. The Old Woman and Her Cat; 40. Dunglet; 41. The Louse; Afterword; Group V: Universe; 42. The Woman Who Fell into the Well; 43. The Rich Man and the Poor Man; 44. Maruf the Shoemaker; 45. Im Ali and Abu Ali; Afterword; Folkloristic Analysis; Appendix A: Transliteration of Tale 10; Appendix B: Index of Folk Motifs; Appendix C: List of Tales by Type; Selected Bibliography; Footnote Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J
Description / Table of Contents:
KM; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W;
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Key to References; Introduction; THE TALES; Notes on Presentation and Translation; Group I: Individuals; Children and Parents; 1. Tunjur, Tunjur; 2. The Woman Who Married Her Son; 3. Precious One and Worn-out One; 4. Šweš, Šweš!; 5. The Golden Pail; Afterword; Siblings; 6. Half-a-Halfling; 7. The Orphans' Cow; 8. Sumac! You Son of a Whore, Sumac!; 9. The Green Bird; 10. Little Nightingale the Crier; Afterword; Sexual Awakening and Courtship; 11. The Little Bird; 12. Jummez Bin Yazur, Chief of the Birds; 13. Jbene; 14. Sackcloth
Note:
Includes indexes
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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Aus dem Arab. übers.
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