Farah Aboubakr is a teaching fellow and researcher at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in memory studies and Palestinian popular culture and has published in the peer-reviewed journal Marvels & Tales. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester.

There is much to glean from Aboubakr’s detailed and carefully-referenced work. Besides filling an important gap in academic work on Palestinian culture and heritage, the book enables the reader to comprehend the interwoven strands of Palestinian society and memory and how, without displacing the importance of Palestinian resistance, there are complementary and equally important means through which the historical trauma of the Nakba can be communicated with resilience.

• Note on TransliterationIntroductionChapter 1. Collective Memory in Palestine: Introductory NotePalestinian Oral HistoryThe 1948 Nakba, Trauma and NostalgiaStorytelling and LanguageChapter 2. Palestinian Folktales: Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989) and Qul Ya Tayer (2001)Folktales: Reality versus ImaginationPalestinian Folk NarrativesThe Society of Storytellers in PalestineThe Functions of Folktales in Palestinian SocietyThe Psychological FunctionThe Social FunctionThe Belief FunctionParatextual Material in Speak, Bird, Speak Again and Qul ya Tayer ??? ?? ???Pre-Introduction Paratextual Materials (Materials Before the Introduction)Paratextual Materials within the TalesThe Tales and Post-Tales Paratextual Materials (Materials Appearing at the End of the Collections)The TalesChapter 3. Palestinian Women and the Preservation of Memory in Palestinian FolktalesMother – Daughter NarrativeMother – Son NarrativeSiblings’ NarrativeSexual AwakeningMarriageChapter 4. Cultural Identity and Sites of Memory in Palestinian FolktalesPeasantry as a Site of Memory and IdentityRecreating the HomelandPeasantry and Collective IdentityLanguage and Folk Religion in Society, Environment and Universe Groups of FolktalesFood and MemoryProspective MemorySensuous MemoryFood and Women: Agents of MemoryFinal ReflectionsBibliographyAppendix 1 - Interview with Dr Sharif KanaanaAppendix 2 - Table of FootnotesAppendix 3 - Summaries of Tales in Chapter ThreeAppendix 4 - “The Old Woman and Her Cat” Al-? juz w al-bis and “Dunglet” Ba ? irunAppendix 5 - Summaries of Tales in Chapter Four

Farah Aboubakr is a teaching fellow and researcher at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in memory studies and Palestinian popular culture and has published in the peer-reviewed journal Marvels & Tales. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester.

There is much to glean from Aboubakr’s detailed and carefully-referenced work. Besides filling an important gap in academic work on Palestinian culture and heritage, the book enables the reader to comprehend the interwoven strands of Palestinian society and memory and how, without displacing the importance of Palestinian resistance, there are complementary and equally important means through which the historical trauma of the Nakba can be communicated with resilience.

• Note on TransliterationIntroductionChapter 1. Collective Memory in Palestine: Introductory NotePalestinian Oral HistoryThe 1948 Nakba, Trauma and NostalgiaStorytelling and LanguageChapter 2. Palestinian Folktales: Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989) and Qul Ya Tayer (2001)Folktales: Reality versus ImaginationPalestinian Folk NarrativesThe Society of Storytellers in PalestineThe Functions of Folktales in Palestinian SocietyThe Psychological FunctionThe Social FunctionThe Belief FunctionParatextual Material in Speak, Bird, Speak Again and Qul ya Tayer ??? ?? ???Pre-Introduction Paratextual Materials (Materials Before the Introduction)Paratextual Materials within the TalesThe Tales and Post-Tales Paratextual Materials (Materials Appearing at the End of the Collections)The TalesChapter 3. Palestinian Women and the Preservation of Memory in Palestinian FolktalesMother – Daughter NarrativeMother – Son NarrativeSiblings’ NarrativeSexual AwakeningMarriageChapter 4. Cultural Identity and Sites of Memory in Palestinian FolktalesPeasantry as a Site of Memory and IdentityRecreating the HomelandPeasantry and Collective IdentityLanguage and Folk Religion in Society, Environment and Universe Groups of FolktalesFood and MemoryProspective MemorySensuous MemoryFood and Women: Agents of MemoryFinal ReflectionsBibliographyAppendix 1 - Interview with Dr Sharif KanaanaAppendix 2 - Table of FootnotesAppendix 3 - Summaries of Tales in Chapter ThreeAppendix 4 - “The Old Woman and Her Cat” Al-? juz w al-bis and “Dunglet” Ba ? irunAppendix 5 - Summaries of Tales in Chapter Four

Farah Aboubakr is a teaching fellow and researcher at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in memory studies and Palestinian popular culture and has published in the peer-reviewed journal Marvels & Tales. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester.

There is much to glean from Aboubakr’s detailed and carefully-referenced work. Besides filling an important gap in academic work on Palestinian culture and heritage, the book enables the reader to comprehend the interwoven strands of Palestinian society and memory and how, without displacing the importance of Palestinian resistance, there are complementary and equally important means through which the historical trauma of the Nakba can be communicated with resilience.

• Note on TransliterationIntroductionChapter 1. Collective Memory in Palestine: Introductory NotePalestinian Oral HistoryThe 1948 Nakba, Trauma and NostalgiaStorytelling and LanguageChapter 2. Palestinian Folktales: Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989) and Qul Ya Tayer (2001)Folktales: Reality versus ImaginationPalestinian Folk NarrativesThe Society of Storytellers in PalestineThe Functions of Folktales in Palestinian SocietyThe Psychological FunctionThe Social FunctionThe Belief FunctionParatextual Material in Speak, Bird, Speak Again and Qul ya Tayer ??? ?? ???Pre-Introduction Paratextual Materials (Materials Before the Introduction)Paratextual Materials within the TalesThe Tales and Post-Tales Paratextual Materials (Materials Appearing at the End of the Collections)The TalesChapter 3. Palestinian Women and the Preservation of Memory in Palestinian FolktalesMother – Daughter NarrativeMother – Son NarrativeSiblings’ NarrativeSexual AwakeningMarriageChapter 4. Cultural Identity and Sites of Memory in Palestinian FolktalesPeasantry as a Site of Memory and IdentityRecreating the HomelandPeasantry and Collective IdentityLanguage and Folk Religion in Society, Environment and Universe Groups of FolktalesFood and MemoryProspective MemorySensuous MemoryFood and Women: Agents of MemoryFinal ReflectionsBibliographyAppendix 1 - Interview with Dr Sharif KanaanaAppendix 2 - Table of FootnotesAppendix 3 - Summaries of Tales in Chapter ThreeAppendix 4 - “The Old Woman and Her Cat” Al-? juz w al-bis and “Dunglet” Ba ? irunAppendix 5 - Summaries of Tales in Chapter Four