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Offering a detailed analysis of oral poetry dueling performed at traditional Palestinian weddings, this work is unique in addressing poetry dueling as a performative and compositional device, and exploring the complex linkages between this tradition and other genres of Arabic poetry.
It includes a study of poetry dueling in standard Arabic; a description of the historical and performance contexts of the Palestinian duels, as well as of poets and their training; an analysis of a single performance; and a re-interpretation of the nature verbal dueling generally.
Including a transcription and translation of an entire performance, the book considers the social efficacy of poetry dueling, its aesthetic nature, and its value as a compositional device within a larger system of poetic production.
It includes a study of poetry dueling in standard Arabic; a description of the historical and performance contexts of the Palestinian duels, as well as of poets and their training; an analysis of a single performance; and a re-interpretation of the nature verbal dueling generally.
Including a transcription and translation of an entire performance, the book considers the social efficacy of poetry dueling, its aesthetic nature, and its value as a compositional device within a larger system of poetic production.
Price: $229.00
Pages: 380
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
29 November 2006
ISBN: 9789004152595
Format: Hardcover
“Yaqub is a literary scholar thoroughly at home in the discourse of folklore, and her unifying and well-researched study with its extensive notes and bibliography is very satisfying because it breaks the taboo on folklore. She more than traces a connection; she explores a continuity. This is an original piece of research and a singular contribution to folkloristics and Arabic studies.”
Ibrahim Muhawi,Western Folklore, 2010
Ibrahim Muhawi,Western Folklore, 2010
Nadia G. Yaqub, Ph.D. (1999) in Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, is an Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published numerous articles on Palestinian oral poetry and Arabic literature.