Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to prov...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1995
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| Series: | Myth and Poetics
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