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The folktales of Palestine : cultural identity, memory and the politics of storytelling / Farah Aboubakr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aboubakr, Farah, author.
- Series:
- SOAS Palestine studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory.
- Literature and society.
- Storytelling.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Folklore--Palestine.
- Folklore.
- Storytelling--Palestine.
- Literature and society--Palestine.
- Collective memory--Palestine.
- Muhawi, Ibrahim, 1937- Speak, bird, speak again.
- Muhawi, Ibrahim.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I. B. Tauris, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Speak bird, speak memory
- Collective memory in Palestine. Palestinian oral history. The 1948 Nakba, trauma and nostalgia. Storytelling and language
- Palestinian folktales: Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989) and Qul Ya Tayer (2001). Folktales: reality versus imagination. Palestinian folk narratives. The society of storytellers in Palestine. The functions of folktales in Palestinian society. Paratextual material in Speak, Bird, Speak Agai and Qul Ya Tayer
- Palestinian women and the preservation of memory in Palestinian folktales. Mother-daughter narrative. Mother-son narrative. Sibling narrative. Sexual awakening. Marriage
- Cultural Identity and sites of memory in Palestinian folktales. Peasantry as a site of memory and identity. Language and folk religion in society, environment and universe groups of folktales. Food and memory.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1788314263
- 9781788314268
- OCLC:
- 1042081676
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