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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Wickett has worked in the Middle East and North Africa for more than twenty-five years, in academic research, anthropological film and development. She studied with Dell Hymes at the University of Pennsylvania and has lectured widely on Upper Egyptian folk genres and performance. She produced the successful documentary For Those Who Sail to Heaven , highlighting the legacy of ancient festival tradition in Luxor, and is the author of For the Living and the Dead: the Funerary Laments of Upper Egypt, Ancient and Modern (I.B.Tauris, 2010). Klappentext A translation into English of five tales from Upper Egypt that accurately captures the drama! wit and vitality of Egyptian oral narrative in performance. It includes the tale of Maimuna! the slave girl of Mecca! crucified for her beliefs! and the erotic tale of Aziza! the daughter of the Sultan of Tunis! who attempts to seduce and capture Yunis. A translation into English of five tales from Upper Egypt that accurately captures the drama, wit and vitality of Egyptian oral narrative in performance. It includes the tale of Maimuna, the slave girl of Mecca, crucified for her beliefs, and the erotic tale of Aziza, the daughter of the Sultan of Tunis, who attempts to seduce and capture Yunis. Zusammenfassung A translation into English of five tales from Upper Egypt that accurately captures the drama, wit and vitality of Egyptian oral narrative in performance. It includes the tale of Maimuna, the slave girl of Mecca, crucified for her beliefs, and the erotic tale of Aziza, the daughter of the Sultan of Tunis, who attempts to seduce and capture Yunis. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsPart I Tales from the Egyptian epic sirat bani hilal’ Chapter 1 The Romance of Aziza and Yunis Egyptian erotica Chapter 2 The tale of Khadra al-Sharifa and the miraculous conception of Abu Zayd al-Hilali Epic as ethnography: gender and rites of passage amongst the Bani Hilal Part II Coptic Tales Chapter 3 The Tale of St. George and the Dragon or Mari Jirjis The Egyptian St. George: Intertextuality and etiological myth in an Upper Egyptian saint’s tale Chapter 4 Egyptian Tales of Adam and Eve: Gender, Original Sin and the Logic of Redemption The Story of Adam and Eve by Amm Rizq Bulos Part III Egyptian conversion tales Chapter 5 The Tale of Maimuna The Tale of Theodore, the Warrior Saint Chapter 6Conclusion NotesIndex...
