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Desert Voices: Bedouin Women's Poetry In Saudi arabia
[Paperback - 2024]
moneera al-ghadeer
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Category: Literature
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Publisher: I.b.tauris Uk | ISBN: 9780755652990 | Pages: 256
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The Bedouin, or desert dwellers , have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here, Moneera Al-Ghadeer provides us with the first comparative reading of women s oral poetry from Saudi Arabia. She examines women s lyrics of love, desire, mourning and grievance. We come to understand Bedouin mores and - most significantly - the unique description of a desert that is consistently held to be infinite, evocative, stimulating and an eternal freedom. As the first English translation and analysis of this poetry, Desert Voices" is both a gesture to preserving the oral poetic tradition of Bedouin women and a radical critique addressing the exclusion of their poetry from current academic literary studies. The book provides invaluable material for reflection in the debates around oral culture and women s poetic composition while it translates, presents and critically examins a genre, which opens Arabic poetry and literature to contemporary theory and criticism."

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Moneera Al-Ghadeer is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Wisonsin-Madison

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