Description |
1 online resource (xix, 420 pages) |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 405-412. |
Note |
Includes indexes. |
Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Key to References; Introduction; THE TALES; Notes on Presentation and Translation; Group I: Individuals; Children and Parents; 1. Tunjur, Tunjur; 2. The Woman Who Married Her Son; 3. Precious One and Worn-out One; 4. Šwēš, Šwēš!; 5. The Golden Pail; Afterword; Siblings; 6. Half-a-Halfling; 7. The Orphans' Cow; 8. Sumac! You Son of a Whore, Sumac!; 9. The Green Bird; 10. Little Nightingale the Crier; Afterword; Sexual Awakening and Courtship; 11. The Little Bird; 12. Jummēz Bin Yāzūr, Chief of the Birds; 13. Jbēne; 14. Sackcloth. |
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15. Šāhīn; Afterword; The Quest for the Spouse; 16. The Brave Lad; 17. Gazelle; 18. Lōlabe; Afterword; Group II: Family; Brides and Bridegrooms; 19. The Old Woman Ghouleh; 20. Lady Tatar; 21. Šōqak Bōqak!; 22. Clever Hasan; 23. The Cricket; Afterword; Husbands and Wives; 24. The Seven Leavenings; 25. The Golden Rod in the Valley of Vermilion; 26. Minjal; 27. Im Ēše; Afterword; Family Life; 28. Chick Eggs; 29. The Ghouleh of Trans-Jordan; 30. Bear-Cub of the Kitchen; 31. The Woman Whose Hands Were Cut Off; 32. Nʻayyis (Little Sleepy One); Afterword; Group III: Society. |
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33. Im ʻAwwād and the Ghouleh. 34. The Merchant's Daughter; 35. Pomegranate Seeds; 36. The Woodcutter; 37. The Fisherman; Afterword; Group IV: Environment; 38. The Little She-Goat; 39. The Old Woman and Her Cat; 40. Dunglet; 41. The Louse; Afterword; Group V: Universe; 42. The Woman Who Fell into the Well; 43. The Rich Man and the Poor Man; 44. Maʻrūf the Shoemaker; 45. Im ʻAlī and Abū ʻAlī; Afterword; Folkloristic Analysis; Appendix A: Transliteration of Tale 10; Appendix B: Index of Folk Motifs; Appendix C: List of Tales by Type; Selected Bibliography; Footnote Index. |
Summary |
Tales are grouped by headings - Individual, Family, Society, Environment and Universe, with the first two subdivided into Children and Parents, Siblings, Sexual Awakening and Courtship and The Quest for the Spouse, and Brides and Bridegrooms, Husbands and Wives and Family Life. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
In English with Tale 10 transliterated to a Palestinian dialect. |
Subject |
Tales -- Palestine.
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Tales. |
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Palestinian Arabs -- Folklore.
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Palestinian Arabs. |
Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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Subject |
Folk literature, Arabic -- Palestine -- Translations into English.
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Folk literature, Arabic. |
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Middle East -- Palestine. |
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Folklore -- Palestine. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. |
Indexed Term |
Palestinian Arab tales |
Genre/Form |
Translations.
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Added Author |
Muhawi, Ibrahim, 1937-
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Kanāʻnah, Sharīf.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Speak, bird, speak again Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989. 0520058631 (alk. paper) (DLC) 88004832 |
ISBN |
9780520908734 ebook |
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0520908732 |
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0520058631 alkaline paper |
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0520062922 paperback alkaline paper |
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058513541X (electronic book) |
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9780585135410 (electronic book) |
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9780520058637 (alkaline paper) |
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0520058631 |
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9780520062924 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520062922 |
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