Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Folktales of PalestineCondition: NewEAN: 9781788314268ISBN: 9781788314268Publisher: I.B. TaurisFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/21/2019Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 540gAuthor: Farah AboubakrLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of StorytellingISBN-10: 1788314263Description: Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the stories and the process of storytelling itself help to define social, cultural and political identity. For Palestinians, the threat of losing their heritage has engendered a sense of urgency among storytellers and Palestinian folklorists. Yet there has been remarkably little academic scholarship dedicated to the tradition.Farah Aboubakr here analyses a selection of folktales edited, compiled and translated by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana in Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989). In addition to the folktales themselves, Muhawi and Kanaana’s collection is renowned for providing readers with extensive folkloric, historical and anthropological annotations. Here, for the first time, the folktales and the compilers’ work on them, are the subject of scholarly analysis. Synthesising various disciplines including memory studies, gender studies and social movement studies, Aboubakr uses the collection to understand the politics of storytelling and its impact on Palestinian identity. In particular, the book draws attention to the female storytellers who play an essential role in transmitting and preserving collective memory and culture. The book is an important step towards analysing a significant genre of Palestinian literature and will be relevant to scholars of Palestinian politics and popular culture, gender studies and memory studies, and those interested in folklore and oral literature.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBBook Series: SOAS Palestine StudiesGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Language & Reference, Social Sciences, Literary Criticism, HistoryRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Folktales of Palestine
Title: The Folktales of Palestine
EAN: 9781788314268
ISBN: 9781788314268
Release Date: 03/21/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling
ISBN-10: 1788314263
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Folktales of Palestine : Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Middle Eastern, Storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Gender Studies, Folklore & Mythology, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Farah Aboubakr
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Soas Palestine Studies
Format: Hardcover
