Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture

ISBN-13: 9780198265474 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 504 str.

Clinton Bailey; Wilfred Thesiger;Baily

Opis

Like other nonliterate peoples, the Bedouin have a strong oral tradition and use poetry for all forms of communication and entertainment. Based on twenty years of studying the poetry of the Bedouin of Sinai and the Negev, this book presents 115 poems recorded between 1967 and 1985. Bailey arranges the poems according to their content, providing for each an introduction, a version of the poem in Arabic script and transliteration, and notes on the poem's cultural, linguistic, and historical background.

Recenzje

The present work is well presented and very comprehensive, and it is good to have such a solid collection of poems to add to the growing corpus of works on Bedouin and Arabian oral literature.