Seers, saints and sinners : the oral tradition of Upper Egypt /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wickett, Elizabeth
Format:	Book
Language:	English Arabic
Language Notes:	Tales in English translation with transliterations of Upper Egyptian pronunciation of Arabic in appendices.
Published:	London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : 2012.
Subjects:	Tales > Egypt > Luxor. Folklore > Egypt > Luxor. Oral tradition > Egypt > Luxor. Storytelling > Egypt > Luxor. Egyptians > Egypt > Luxor > Folklore. Copts > Luxor > Folklore. Coptic Christian saints > Folklore. Sīrat Banī Hilāl. George, > Saint, > -303 > Folklore. Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Folklore. Folk poetry, Arabic > Criticism and interpretation. Folk poetry, Arabic > Translations into English.

Table of Contents:

Tales from the Egyptian epic 'sīrat banī hilāl'. The tale of ʻAzī̄za and Yūnis. Egyptian erotica : ancient precursors and Bakhtin's concept of the adventure chronotope ; Towards an ethnopoetics of Egyptian sīra performance. The tale of Khadra al-Sharīfa and the miraculous conception of Abu Zayd al-Hilālī. Epic as ethnography : gender and rites of passage among the Banī Hilāl
Coptic Tales. The tale of St. George and the dragon. The egyptian St. George : intertextuality and etiological myth in an un Upper Egyptian saint's tale ; The tale of Adam and Eve. Egyptian tales of Adam and eve : gender, original sin and the logic of redemption
Egyptian conversion tales. Ancient contexts, reversions and converions : Messianic tales of the miraculous. The praise poem of Maimūna ; The tale of Theodore, the warrior saint.