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Name: Veiled sentiments
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Author: Lila Abu-Lughod

During almost two years spent living with the Bedouins of the Western Desert, Lila Abu‑Lughod studied how women and young men use oral lyric poetry to convey personal feelings. The poems she collected are haunting and vividly portray emotional life. Her anthropological analysis extends beyond the poetic form, showing how sentiment, poetry and social hierarchy reinforce one another. What begins as a close examination of a single poetic genre becomes a broader reflection on the politics of sentiment, the role of ideology in everyday life, and the relationship between individual experience and social structures.

First publish date: 1986

Genre: Poetry/Contemporary Poetry

Authors: Lila Abu-Lughod

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