Ibrahim Muhawi, Sharif Kanaana

Speak, Bird, Speak Again

Palestinian Arab Folktales

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This extraordinary combination of anthropological and literary expertise has achieved a set of exquisite folktales, translated accurately, sensitively, and lovingly, together with a dazzling array of ethnographical and folkloristic notes providing a landmark entrée into Palestinian Arab ethos and worldview."--Alan Dundes, from the original foreword

Produktdetails

• World Literature in Translation
• Verlag: University of California Press
• First Edition, with a New Foreword edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 127mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780520385849
• ISBN-10: 0520385845
• Artikelnr.: 61564134

Autorenporträt

Ibrahim Muhawi is Courtesy Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon. He has taught in North America, Middle East, North Africa, and Europe and is a recipient of the PEN Translation Prize. Sharif Kanaana has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; An-Najah University in Nablus, Palestine; and Birzeit University in Birzeit, Palestine, where he was a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science until his retirement. He has published over forty books and over eighty research articles in English and Arabic on topics including social change, culture and identity, political humor, modern Palestinian history, and Palestinian folklore. Kanaana is currently involved in producing an encyclopedia of Palestinian folktales in five volumes. Ibtisam Barakat is an internationally renowned Palestinian American poet, artist, and educator. She is the author of six books in both English and Arabic including Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood and Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine.