Whispers of Oasis: Likoo's Poetic Mirage
Title | Whispers of Oasis: Likoo's Poetic Mirage PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Asemana Books |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2024-03-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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A collaboration between an ethnographer, a bilingual poet, and an Anglo-Irish literature scholar, this multilingual volume includes 100 Likoos, a syllabic genre of oral poetry, in their original Roudbari, accompanied by English and Persian translations. Likoo is one of the oldest and most concise forms of oral poetry in the Iranian plateau. Composed in the languages of the people of Roudbar and Balochistan in southeast Iran, Likoos are a testament to the cultural diversity and linguistic richness of the region. Likoos echo the lives of people in Roudbar, the lives of those living in the oasis, surrounded by the desert. They depict life in the desert with all its hardships, challenges, and failures. Likoos are the poetry of short joys and continuous hardship, reflecting the brutality of life dominated by nomadic social relations. They are the voice of a lover who catches a glimpse of his beloved in the desert, the call of a camel driver in the lonely nights of the desert on a dry path, or the mourning over the death of a young person due to tribal violence. The publication of this work has been supported by a 2021 Persian Heritage Foundation grant for publication.
Shades of Truth
Title | Shades of Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Manijeh Mannani |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Persian fiction |
ISBN | 9781568593142 |
A Maranao dictionary
Title | A Maranao dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Howard McKaughan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 742 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Maranao language |
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A Dictionary of the Yoruba Language
Title | A Dictionary of the Yoruba Language PDF eBook |
Author | Nigeria University Press |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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Based upon the nineteenth century standard work on the Yoruba language, and first ever English-Yoruba, Yoruba-English dictionary, this new edition has been revised and enlarged considerably. The dictionary contains about 50,000 references and translations; Yoruba pronunciation guidance; examples of how words are used; contemporary meanings and interpretations; and reference to grammatical usage and parts of speech. There is also an extensive list of commonly occurring birds, plants and trees, translated from Yoruba into English alongside their botanical equivalents.
Black Dragon
Title | Black Dragon PDF eBook |
Author | Zachary F Price |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-11-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780814214602 |
Deploys martial arts as a lens to analyze performance, power, and identity within the evolving fusion of Black and Asian American cultures in history and media.
The Inflection and Syntax of Maranao Verbs
Title | The Inflection and Syntax of Maranao Verbs PDF eBook |
Author | Howard McKaughan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Maranao language |
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Maranao Stories
Title | Maranao Stories PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | de La Salle University |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Social Science |
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