The Folktales of Palestine

Name: The Folktales of Palestine
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

By Farah Aboubakr

0 - Default Title

Description

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.

Product details

Number of Pages:: 256
Release Date:: 2019-03-21
Publication Date:: 2019-03-21
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1788314263
ISBN13:: 9781788314268
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 552 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

Buy on Amazon

Currently sold out