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Abdallah El Mountassir, Amarg: Amazigh songs and poetry (South-west Morocco), L’Harmattan, Paris, 2004, 135 p., 13 €. The aim of this work is to offer the reader an anthology of Tashelhit poetry (Amazigh of south-west Morocco) and presents three different poetical genres: the poetry of itinerant singers (amarg n rrways); anonymous poetry (imurig) which conjures up the varied themes of love, beauty, pride, etc; and finally wedding songs (tanggift) belonging to an exclusively feminine world and accompanying all of the stages of the wedding ritual.
The poems appearing in this book – wedding songs and anonymous poetry – were collected from all over the south-west of Morocco.
There is a French translation of the texts transcribed in Tashelhit and Latin characters. (WO)
Abdellah El Mountassir, Doctor of Literature., is a specialist in Berber linguistics and literature and is a lecturer at the University of Agadir (Morocco). He is the author of numerous papers on Berber linguistics and literature. He has also published a method of learning and teaching Tashelhit and a dictionary of Tashelhit-French verbs. |