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- catalog abstract ""The preeminent Afghan poet of the twentieth century, Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, has here collected the songs of anonymous Pashtun women from the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan." "These landays consist of two-line verses of nine and thirteen syllables. Their brevity and rhythym are meant to catch the ear. Village women improvise landays as they gather water from springs and when they dance and sing at weddings, with the most resonant of them claimed by their collective memory." "As part of an oral tradition, these poems avoid the complex, mystical, and abstract forms of their cultural canon. There is no aspiration whatsoever toward an unfavorable and incommunicable heaven, nor devotion to the lord, nor praise for an absolute master, nor any Adonis. To the contrary, these poems are songs of the earth." "Here the active voice of the Afghan woman affirms simple pleasures and bemoans widespread suffering. The poems celebrate nature, mountains, rivers, dams, and night's magnetic space. They are songs of war and honor, shame and love, death and beauty."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Suicide et le chant. English".
- catalog contributor b13064336.
- catalog contributor b13064337.
- catalog contributor b13064338.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""As part of an oral tradition, these poems avoid the complex, mystical, and abstract forms of their cultural canon. There is no aspiration whatsoever toward an unfavorable and incommunicable heaven, nor devotion to the lord, nor praise for an absolute master, nor any Adonis. To the contrary, these poems are songs of the earth." "Here the active voice of the Afghan woman affirms simple pleasures and bemoans widespread suffering. The poems celebrate nature, mountains, rivers, dams, and night's magnetic space. They are songs of war and honor, shame and love, death and beauty."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The preeminent Afghan poet of the twentieth century, Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, has here collected the songs of anonymous Pashtun women from the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan." "These landays consist of two-line verses of nine and thirteen syllables. Their brevity and rhythym are meant to catch the ear. Village women improvise landays as they gather water from springs and when they dance and sing at weddings, with the most resonant of them claimed by their collective memory."".
- catalog extent "xvi, 105 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Songs of love and war.".
- catalog identifier "159051081X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Songs of love and war.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Other Press,".
- catalog relation "Songs of love and war.".
- catalog spatial "Afghanistan".
- catalog subject "891/.59310809287 21".
- catalog subject "PK6819.M35 A26 2003".
- catalog subject "Pushto poetry Women authors Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Women Afghanistan Social conditions Poetry.".
- catalog title "Songs of love and war : Afghan women's poetry / Sayd Bahodine Majrouh ; translated from the Pashtun into French, adapted and introduced by Andre Velter and the author ; translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager.".
- catalog title "Suicide et le chant. English".
- catalog type "text".