Clive Holes

Poetry and Politics in Contemporary Bedouin Society (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how colloquial Bedouin poetry remains a vibrant art that has manifold modern functions: commenting on world affairs (such as the Arab-Israeli wars, the Gulf War, the American invasion of Iraq); criticising the domestic policies of Arab states; and, highlighting poverty, discrimination, the corrupt practices of officialdom, and compliant local media. Each of the forty-one poems presented within this book is transliterated and translated into English verse, with historical and contextual annotation. The tone is sometimes bitter, sometimes satirical, sometimes scurrilous, and often amusing. The poems are prefaced by an essay on the practice of modern Bedouin poetry. This book is completed by appendices containing the Arabic script versions of the poems, extensive language notes, and a glossary of the vocabulary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Garnet Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780863725586
• Artikelnr.: 48760618

Autorenporträt

Clive Holes has been Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford since 1997. He has published widely on the Arabic language, both Classical and dialectal, and on Arabic popular literature. In 2009, he and Said Salman Abu Athera published Poetry and Politics in Contemporary Bedouin Society (Ithaca & AUC Press), a study of the modern Nabati tradition of Jordan and Sinai. Professor Holes is a Fellow of the British Academy. Said Salman Abu Athera is an independent researcher into Bedouin poetry, lore, and customs, and an Associate Member of the Sub-Faculty of the Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford. He has published and broadcast extensively in Arabic and acted as a consultant for UNESCO on Bedouin affairs. He is a founder member of the Jordanian National Committee for Cultural Heritage, and established the Centre for the Preservation of Bedouin Culture, a non-profit NGO.