| Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales Contributor(s): Jraissaty Khoury, Najla (Author), Bushnaq, Inea (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0914671960 ISBN-13: 9780914671961 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 398.209 |
| LCCN: 2017057970 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 7.6" (0.75 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Middle East - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A collection of 30 traditional Syrian and Lebanese folktales infused with new life by Lebanese women, collected by Najla Khoury. While civil war raged in Lebanon, Najla Khoury traveled with a theater troupe, putting on shows in marginal areas where electricity was a luxury, in air raid shelters, Palestinian refugee camps, and isolated villages. Their plays were largely based on oral tales, and she combed the country in search of stories. Many years later, she chose one hundred stories from among the most popular and published them in Arabic in 2014, exactly as she received them, from the mouths of the storytellers who told them as they had heard them when they were children from their parents and grandparents. Out of the hundred stories published in Arabic, Inea Bushnaq and Najla Khoury chose thirty for this book. |