Djeha The North African Trickster

Author : Christa Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496847091

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Djeha, the North African Trickster by Christa Jones Pdf

Djeha--also known as Juha, Jeh'a, and Ch'ha, among many variations--is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster is a poor, cunning, and resourceful character that delights in immoral behavior. Orientalists Auguste Mouliéras (1855-1931) and René Basset (1855-1924) were among the first Frenchmen to collect and translate popular Berber folktales. Today, trickster folktales from Algeria's mountainous Kabylia region are not well known in the Anglophone world, even though they continue to be highly popular in France and in North Africa. Djeha, the North African Trickster is an annotated, critical translation of Auguste Mouliéras's folktale collection Les Fourberies de Si Djeh'a, first published in French in 1892. The volume contains sixty tales and an in-depth introduction in which Christa C. Jones discusses jocular literature in Islam, the widespread oral folktale tradition linked to Djeha and his Turkish twin brother Nasreddin Hoca, and the impact of colonialism on the gathering and dissemination of the tales. The trickster is at the center of six themed chapters: "Family and Kinship"; "Animal Tales"; "Faces, Places, or Daily Life in the Village"; "Foodways"; "The Intricacies of Hospitality: Beware of Friends and Foes!"; and "Religion, Death, and the Afterlife." Each chapter contains ten folktales preceded by a short introduction that contextualizes the pieces using historical, folkloristic, literary, and ethnographical sources. Ultimately, the book contributes to the preservation of an ancestral oral heritage, delivering this enduring character to new audiences.

Author : Christa C. Jones
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496847065

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Djeha, the North African Trickster by Christa C. Jones Pdf

Djeha—also known as Juha, Jeh’a, and Ch’ha, among many variations—is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster is a poor, cunning, and resourceful character that delights in immoral behavior. Orientalists Auguste Mouliéras (1855-1931) and René Basset (1855-1924) were among the first Frenchmen to collect and translate popular Berber folktales. Today, trickster folktales from Algeria’s mountainous Kabylia region are not well known in the Anglophone world, even though they continue to be highly popular in France and in North Africa. Djeha, the North African Trickster is an annotated, critical translation of Auguste Mouliéras’s folktale collection Les Fourberies de Si Djeh’a, first published in French in 1892. The volume contains sixty tales and an in-depth introduction in which Christa C. Jones discusses jocular literature in Islam, the widespread oral folktale tradition linked to Djeha and his Turkish twin brother Nasreddin Hoca, and the impact of colonialism on the gathering and dissemination of the tales. The trickster is at the center of six themed chapters: “Family and Kinship”; “Animal Tales"; “Faces, Places, or Daily Life in the Village"; “Foodways”; “The Intricacies of Hospitality: Beware of Friends and Foes!"; and “Religion, Death, and the Afterlife.” Each chapter contains ten folktales preceded by a short introduction that contextualizes the pieces using historical, folkloristic, literary, and ethnographical sources. Ultimately, the book contributes to the preservation of an ancestral oral heritage, delivering this enduring character to new audiences.

Author : Mark McKinney
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789462702417

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Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics by Mark McKinney Pdf

Profound analysis of French comics through a postcolonial lens Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954–62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the end of the formal dismantling of French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic-minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria and Armenia), José Jover (Spain), Larbi Mechkour (Algeria), and Roland Monpierre (Guadeloupe). The author analyzes comics representing a gamut of perspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging from staunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific artists, artistic collectives, comics, or themes, including avant-gardism, undocumented migrants in comics, and racism in far-right comics.

Author : Laura Chakravarty Box
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135932077

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Strategies of Resistance in the Dramatic Texts of North African Women by Laura Chakravarty Box Pdf

This study presents the first broad analysis of Maghrebian women's dramatic literature undertaken in English. The book considers sixty-five plays and works of performance art by they twenty-eight women dramatists from the Maghreb.

Author : Jane E. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253049636

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Staging Cultural Encounters by Jane E. Goodman Pdf

Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater troupe Istijmam Culturelle in 2016. Jane E. Goodman follows the Algerian theater troupe as they prepare for and then tour the U.S. under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding. The title of the play Istijmam produced was translated as "Apples," written by Abdelkader Alloula, a renowned Algerian playwright, director, and actor who was assassinated in 1994. Goodman take readers on tour with the actors as they move from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the large state universities of New Hampshire and Indiana, and from a tiny community theater in small-town New England to the stage of the avant-garde La MaMa Theater in New York City. Staging Cultural Encounters takes up conundrums of cross-cultural encounter, challenges in translation, and audience reception, offering a frank account of the encounters with American audiences and the successes and disappointments of the experience of exchange.

Author : Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African drama
ISBN : 0253215390

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African Theatre by Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan Pdf

The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : august house
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0874834503

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Trickster Tales by Anonim Pdf

Stories from cultures including ancient Babylonia, China, India, Eastern Europe, Morocco.

Author : Martin Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613927508

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West African Trickster Tales by Martin Bennett Pdf

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Małgorzata Sugiera,Torsten Jost,Holger Hartung,Omid Soltani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000825923

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Entangled Performance Histories by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Małgorzata Sugiera,Torsten Jost,Holger Hartung,Omid Soltani Pdf

Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. "Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the world—spanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europe—the book’s contributors systematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of "entangled histories," thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographical and historical backgrounds, the book’s contributions build together a broad basis for a possible and necessary paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance historiography. Ideal for researchers and students of history, theater, performance, drama and dance, this volume opens novel perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of investigating the entangled histories of theater and performance cultures on a global scale.

Author : Janet Madden,Sara M. Blake
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0030558522

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Crosscurrents by Janet Madden,Sara M. Blake Pdf

Offering an introduction to Victorian culture and society, this glossary is also a route-map to further study. Designed specifically with undergraduates in mind, it contains around 400 short and accessible explanations of the key words, events, figures and concepts in the study of the Victorian period. From gothic and the Great Exhibition to origin of species and Oscar Wilde, this glossary gives an interdisciplinary overview of Victorian literature, culture and society, and offers directions for further reading. Covering literary topics, traditions and movements, as well as the period's history, culture and politics, the entries are fully cross-referenced and assume no prior knowledge, making this a useful reference on the Victorian period. The index makes it even more accessible, allowing the reader quickly to find information on topics not listed as individual entries.

Author : Betty Jane Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0377002410

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From the Beginning by Betty Jane Bailey Pdf

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466829305

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Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139451499

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A History of Theatre in Africa by Martin Banham Pdf

This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.

Author : James McDougall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521851640

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A History of Algeria by James McDougall Pdf

An essential introduction to the history of Algeria, spanning a period of five hundred years.

Author : Deborah Kapchan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812202434

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Gender on the Market by Deborah Kapchan Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 Gender on the Market is a study of Moroccan women's expressive culture and the ways in which it both determines and responds to current transformations in gender roles. Beginning with women's emergence into what has been defined as the most paradigmatic of Moroccan male institutions—the marketplace—the book elucidates how gender and commodity relations are experienced and interpreted in women's aesthetic practices. Deborah Kapchan compellingly demonstrates that Moroccan women challenge some of the most basic cultural assumptions of their society—especially ones concerning power and authority.