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cultural identity, memory and the politics of storytelling
Introduction: Speak bird, speak memory -- Collective memory in Palestine. Palestinian oral history. The 1948 Nakba, trauma and nostalgia. Storytelling and language -- Palestinian folktales: Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989) and Qul Ya Tayer (2001). Folktales: reality versus imagination. Palestinian folk narratives. The society of storytellers in Palestine. The functions of folktales in Palestinian society. Paratextual material in Speak, Bird, Speak Agai and Qul Ya Tayer -- Palestinian women and the preservation of memory in Palestinian folktales. Mother-daughter narrative. Mother-son narrative. Sibling narrative. Sexual awakening. Marriage --Cultural Identity and sites of memory in Palestinian folktales. Peasantry as a site of memory and identity. Language and folk religion in society, environment and universe groups of folktales. Food and memory.