Open AccessTowards Creating an Anthology of Socotri Fairy Tales in Russian
Author(s) -
Vitaly Naumkin,
Ekaterina M. Koloskova,
Leonid Kogan
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
orientalistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-0738
pISSN - 2618-7043
DOI - 10.31696/2618-7043-2022-5-1-080-106
Subject(s) - folklore , audience measurement , philology , arabic , literature , history , semitic languages , russian literature , classics , art , linguistics , sociology , gender studies , political science , feminism , philosophy , law
The article features six fairy tales from the island of Socotra in Russian translation. The publication marks the beginning of a large-scale project of creating an anthology of Socotri folklore in Russian, initiated by the present authors in 2021. The first of its kind in the history of Semitic philology, the anthology is intended for a broad Russian readership, but also for specialists interested in folklore traditions and popular religion of today’s Southern Arabia. The samples of Soqotri oral literature presented in this paper were collected by the participants of the Russian-Yemeni working group. They have previously been published in the Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature in transcription, English and Arabic translations, as well as in the Arabic-based graphic system developed in 2014 by the Russian-Yemeni team led by Acad. Vitaly Naumkin.