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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes - The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Paperback)
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes - The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Paperback)
Series: Myth and Poetics
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Loot Price R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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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 commentary. Reynolds's account is based on
performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied
as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in
detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as
the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and
fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue
with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious
orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social
hierarchies.
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