Folktales of Egypt

collected, translated, and edited, with Middle Eastern and African parallels, by Hasan M. El-Shamy ; foreword by Richard M. Dorson

In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. "This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preeminence of the text must be asserted once more, and these are obviously authentic, straightforwardly translated, fully documented as to date of collection and social category of informant, and for all that . . . readable."--Daniel J. Crowley, "Research in African Literatures" "Western knowledge of virtually all facets of contemporary Egyptian culture, much less the roots of that culture, is woefully inadequate. By providing an interesting, varied, and readable collection of Egyptian folktales and offering clear and sensible accounts of their background and meaning, this book renders a valuable service indeed."--Kenneth J. Perkins, "International Journal of Oral History"

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書名 Folktales of Egypt
著作者等 El-Shamy, Hasan M.
Sami Hasan M.
シリーズ名 Folktales of the world
出版元 University of Chicago Press
刊行年月 1982
ページ数 lviii, 347 p.
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 0226206254
NCID BA44163389
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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