Veiled Sentiments

Description:

Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.

subjects: Social life and customs,  History and criticism,  Honor,  Bedouin authors,  Folklore,  Arabic Folk poetry,  Bedouins,  Bedouin Women,  Arabic poetry,  Sex customs,  Women,  Women, egypt,  Arabic poetry, history and criticism,  New York Times reviewed,  Poesia folklorica arabiga,  Historia y critica,  Beduinos,  Moeurs et coutumes,  Poesie populaire arabe,  Histoire et critique,  Honneur,  Vie sexuelle,  Femmes,  Folklore bedouin,  Sexualite?,  Vrouwen,  Sociale situatie,  Bedoeienen

Places: Egypt