Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Updated With a New Preface - Brossura

Abu-Lughod, Lila

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ISBN 10: 0520224736 ISBN 13: 9780520224735

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Updated Edition With a New Preface

Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.

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L'autore:

Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She is the author ofWriting Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (California, 1993) and editor of Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (1998).

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"A truly extraordinary book--beautifully and modestly written, remarkably insightful, consistently compelling." Edward Said, author ofOut of Place: A Memoir

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0520224736
• ISBN 13: 9780520224735
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 356