Oral Traditions of Naqab Bedouin Women: Challenging Settler-Colonial Representations Through Embodied Performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Richter-Devroe
Keyword(s):  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Colonial Representations

The Naqab Bedouin have faced—historically and today—various Israeli settler-colonial practices and discourses aimed at erasing their status as natives of the land. Israeli representations of the Naqab Bedouin often stereotype them as roaming nomads without any links (and consequently rights) to the land or to other Palestinian communities. Naqab Bedouin women's oral and embodied traditions constitute an important challenge to such settler-colonial representations. Women's songs, oral poetry and performances contain important historical counter-narratives, and they also function as embodied systems of learning, teaching, storing, and, to a certain extent, transmitting this community's indigenous memories, knowledges and ways of being.

scholarly journals Irish Poetry and Its Contribution to European Literature

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Nora Hadi Q. Alsaeed
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Irish Poetry ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Culture History ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe

<p>Irish poetry is considered one of the oldest and most enriched sources of poetry in Europe. As a small nation with a less prominent contribution to world literature, the Irish have benchmarked some of their brightest examples in the form of Gaelic writings, and present an outstanding account of oral traditions and oral poetry that have passed down the generations to the contemporary 21st century. Their literature represents various facets of Irish culture, history, and socio-cultural aspects reflected through magical verses of poems, the nature of which has transcended generations and established itself in the history of Europe.</p>

Pluralism and the problem of purity

Analysis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Builes
Keyword(s):  
Real Problem ◽  
Ontological Pluralism ◽  
The Real ◽  
Trenton Merricks ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Ways Of Being

Abstract Ontological Pluralism is the thesis that there are different ways of being. In his recent paper, ‘The only way to be’, Trenton Merricks has presented an important challenge to Pluralism in the form of a dilemma. The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, I argue that Merricks’s argument against Pluralism, as stated, is unsound. I will argue that one horn of the dilemma is unproblematic for contemporary versions of Pluralism, defended by Jason Turner and Kris McDaniel, that are formulated in the framework of Ted Sider. However, my second task is to provide a new dilemma against Pluralism, which, when combined with Merricks’s arguments, constitutes a sound argument against all forms of Pluralism. The new dilemma will reveal that the real problem with Ontological Pluralism is its conflict with Ted Sider’s principle of Purity.

Telling Tales with Words

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-58
Author(s):  
Fiona Macintosh ◽  
Justine McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Word ◽  
First Century ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Roman Epic ◽  
Do So

Chapter 3 explores the twenty-first-century turn to orality exemplified in the works of poets such as Kate Tempest, Titilope Sonuga, and Alice Oswald. Engaging with Graeco-Roman epic in their work, these poets do so via a mode of performance that bears similarities with that of the Homeric bard. But this is not the composition-in-performance that Milman Parry and Albert Lord posited as the mode of Homeric performance; rather, these poets compose what John Miles Foley termed ‘Voiced Texts’. Such works hold the written and the spoken word in tension, denying primacy to the written even in our literacy-obsessed age, and making space for a new kind of orality that meets the demands of the contemporary era, while retaining the composite role of composer/performer that is a hallmark of oral traditions. Key to the popularity of this approach is the capacity of oral poetry to merge myth and history (as Jack Goody and Ian Watt argued), and to constantly rewrite its stories, even those that have been staunchly canonized, as the Graeco-Roman epics have been. The chapter concludes by exploring the ways that narrative podcasts, such as Serial and S-Town, evoke epic and mark another route along which the performance of epic is now being developed.

African Leadership in Children's Literature: Illustrations from the Shona Ngano (Folktale) Genre

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-332
Author(s):  
Godwin Makaudze
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
African Society ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Positive Images ◽  
African Leadership ◽  
Gender Specific

Feminist scholarship sees African society as traditionally patriarchal, while the colonists saw traditional African leadership as lacking in values such as democracy, tolerance, and accountability, until these were imposed by Europeans. Using Afrocentricity as a theoretical basis, this article examines African leadership as portrayed in the Shona ngano [folktale] genre and concludes that, in fact, leadership was neither age- nor gender-specific and was democratic, tolerant, and accountable. It recommends further research into African oral traditions as a way of arriving at more positive images of traditional Africa and her diverse heritage.

Aboutness

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Yablo
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Philosophical Methodology ◽  
Major Advance ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Made In

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion. However, it has played no real role in philosophical semantics, which is surprising. This is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens the role of subject matter in meaning. A long-standing tradition sees meaning as truth conditions, to be specified by listing the scenarios in which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of selection—about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject matter is the missing link here. A sentence is true because of how matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. This book maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out logical space according to its changing ways of being true or false. The notion of content that results—directed content—is brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content, and philosophical methodology. The book represents a major advance in semantics and the philosophy of language.

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