Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
BEDOUIN POETRY AS AN ART OF MEMORY. THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE PRESENT AND THE PAST IN THE POLITICAL POETRY OF THE NEGEV BEDOUIN. |
| Authors: |
Peled, Kobi1 kobip@bgu.ac.il |
| Superior Title: |
Nomadic Peoples. 2024, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p72-94. 23p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*POETRY (Literary form), *MEMORY, *POETS, *WAR, *CORPORA |
| Abstract: |
Bedouin poetry has yet to be explored in the context of memory studies, let alone the poetry of the Negev Bedouin. This article, based on a corpus of hundreds of poems documented between the mid-1940s and late-1980s, reviews excerpts from ten political verses composed by Negev Bedouin poets. These verses attest to the power of Bedouin poetry to evoke -- at times in just a word or two -- a wide range of meanings, a historical depth that may be submersed in a few expressions, and the ways in which these expressions activate memories of the past to communicate something of significance about the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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