The poetics of military occupation : Mzeina allegories of Bedouin identity under Israeli and Egyptian rule / Smadar Lavie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavie, Smadar, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bedouins--Egypt--Janūb Sīnāʼ.

Bedouins.

Storytelling--Egypt--Janūb Sīnāʼ.

Storytelling.

Storytelling--Political aspects--Egypt--Janūb Sīnāʼ.

Israelis--Egypt--Janūb Sīnāʼ.

Israelis.

Folklore--Egypt--Janūb Sīnāʼ.

Folklore.

Janūb Sīnāʼ (Egypt)--Ethnic relations.

Janūb Sīnāʼ (Egypt).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 397 p., [4] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1990]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin land has been a political football, tossed back and forth between Israel and Egypt at least five times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

NOTE TO TRANSLITERATION

1. THE POETICS OF MILITARY OCCUPATION

2. BEDOUIN IN LIMBO, OR DEVELOPERS OBSERVED

3. THE SHEIKH

4. THE MADWOMAN

5. THE EX-SMUGGLER

6. THE OLD WOMAN

7. THE FOOL

8. THE SYMBOLIC BATTLE COORDINATOR

9. THE ONE WHO WRITE! US

INTERLUDE

10. WHEN IDENTITY BECOMES ALLEGORY

NOTES

GLOSSARY OF ARABIC TERMS

REFERENCES

ACKNOWLEDGMENT!

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612356148

9780585135601

0585135606

9780520911604

0520911601

9781282356146

1282356143

OCLC:

43476843