Risible Rhymes BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military African Ark: Mammals

African Ark: Mammals

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Analyzes the narrative agency of women who have come forward to break silences around wartime atrocities

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Risible Rhymes BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military African Ark: MammalsWritten in mid seventeenth century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on rural verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypts countryside. The interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its own right that is hinted at in this work may be unique in pre twentieth century Arabic literature. As such, the work provides a companion piece to its slightly