| #10013281 in Books | 2009-06-15 | 2009-07-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.54 x1.03 x6.33l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Unique Work|By Hatoon AL FASSI|Moneerah Al-Ghadeer in Desert Voices transfers Saudi woman's voice from the limited locality in a small village or a remote desert to the vast world. She is doing it with style, with an inner reading of what these women have been doing with their words and how they managed to express their souls regardless of the severe restrictions on women's v||'This is a truly unique book. It presents material and analysis that is highly original in the fields of Bedouin oral literature, not to mention the broader field of Arabic literary studies - One senses at times that one is in the presence of a truly gifted th
The Bedouin, or ""desert dwellers,"" have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here Moneera Al-Ghadeer provides us with the first comparative reading of women’s oral poetry from Saudi Arabia. She examines women’s lyrics of love, desire, mourning and grievance. We come to understand Bedouin mores and--most significantly--the unique description of a desert that is consistently held to be infinite, evocative, stimulatin...
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