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Title Speak, bird, speak again : Palestinian Arab folktales / [edited and translated by] Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana
Published Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1989]
©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 420 pages)
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
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
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
Analysis Palestinian Arab tales
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-412) and indexes
Notes In English with Tale 10 transliterated to a Palestinian dialect
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 4, 2023)
Subject Tales -- Palestine
Palestinian Arabs -- Folklore
Folk literature, Arabic -- Palestine -- Translations into English
Folk literature, Arabic -- Palestine
Folklore -- Palestine
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Folk literature, Arabic.
Palestinian Arabs.
Tales.
Volkserzählung
Volksliteratur
Anthologie
Palästinenser
Palästinensisch-Arabisch
Arabisch.
Contes palestiniens.
Palestiniens -- Folklore.
Middle East -- Palestine.
Palästinenser.
Palästinensisch-Arabisch.
Genre/Form Folklore.
Translations.
Form Electronic book
Author Muhawi, Ibrahim, 1937- editor.
Kanهa°nah, Sharهif
Kanāʻnah, Sharīf, editor.
ISBN 9780520908734
0520908732
058513541X
9780585135410
0520058631
9780520058637
0520062922
9780520062924