Author: Lavie, Smadar
Title: The Poetics of Military Occupation. Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli & Egyptian Rule
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii, 398 pp. Textual photos. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Poetics of Military Occupation: From Experience to Text; Bedouin in Limbo, or Developers Observed: Egyptian & Israeli Policies for the South Sinai Bedouin; The Sheikh: Al-Sheikh; The Madwoman: Al.Majnuna; The Ex-Smuggler: X; The Old Woman: Al-'Ajuz; The Fool: Al-Ahabal; The Symbolic Battle Coordinator: Al-Galid; The One Who Writes Us: Di Illi Tuktubna; Interlude; When Identity Becomes Allegory: The Poetic Reconstruction of Military Occupation.

Keywords: South Sinai Bedouins, Bedouin Ethnography, Cultural, Anthropology, Egypt, Storytelling, Oral Literature, Sociology, Janub Sina