Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Updated With a New Preface
Updated Edition With a New Preface\ 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...
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"A truly extraordinary book—beautifully and modestly written, remarkably insightful, consistently compelling." —Edward Said, author of Out of Place: A Memoir
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITIONACKNOWLEDGMENTSA NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTIONSOne: Guest and DaughterPART ONE: THE IDEOLOGY OF BEDOUIN SOCIAL LIFETwo: Identity in RelationshipThree: Honor and the Virtues of AutonomyFour: Modesty, Gender, and SexualityPART TWO: DISCOURSES ON SENTIMENTFive: The Poetry of Personal LifeSix: Honor and Poetic VulnerabilitySeven: Modesty and the Poetry of LoveEight: Ideology and the Politics of SentimentAPPENDIX: FORMULAS AND THEMES OF THE GHINNAWANOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
