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Peripheral Agents: Marginality in Arab Folk Narrative

Hemmig, Christopher T.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245358153

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2009, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Narrative as a form of expression does more than reflect social conditions; it also comments upon those realities and negotiates their meanings using affective modes. The negotiation of social relationships is what narrative is about, and the aesthetics of performance serve to enhance the power of its message. I find that marginality quite often emerges as significant in folk narrative performances as a relational condition on which the affective axis of a story turns and as it is interwoven across the story-frame to allow performers and audience to rhetorically expand message and meaning by making use of the performance setting and the broader (de)constructions of culture. Examples of folk narrative taken from Arabic sources demonstrate the various ways in which marginality is exploited and contested inside the narrative as well as outside. For the particular examples chosen, the storyteller is of marginal social position in everyday life. Yet, through a deft performance the teller can challenge normal power dynamics in multiple ways via multiple rhetorical strategies. The teller can engage with the narrative capacities that the narrative functions as counterhegemonic discourse, uncovering the hidden transcript that expresses and enacts resistance to power.
Sabra Webber, PhD (Committee Chair)
Katey Borland, PhD (Committee Member)
Bruce Fudge, PhD (Committee Member)
67 p.
Folklore; Middle Eastern Literature

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  • Hemmig, C. T. (2009). Peripheral Agents: Marginality in Arab Folk Narrative [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245358153

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hemmig, Christopher. Peripheral Agents: Marginality in Arab Folk Narrative. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245358153.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hemmig, Christopher. "Peripheral Agents: Marginality in Arab Folk Narrative." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245358153

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