Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781501723216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 128 str.

Dwight F. Reynolds

Opis

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and...