Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society,

Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society,

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.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2000-03-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780520224735

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2000-03-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780520224735

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