Beyond Storytelling
Description
This study draws on a qualitative corpus of 49 publicly available digital sources documenting Al-ḥakawātī practices across West Asia and North Africa. The dataset was gathered and curated by the researcher from publicly accessible online platforms, including YouTube and digital media outlets, and includes interviews, storytelling performances, café-based narrations, folk tales, heritage programming, revolutionary storytelling, children’s storytelling, and digitally mediated oral traditions. These sources feature self-identified ḥakawātīs as well as adjacent vernacular storytelling figures whose practices illuminate oral pedagogy, memory work, transdialecting, intergenerational transmission, communal ethics, cultural survivance, and the adaptation of storytelling to contemporary digital contexts. The researcher did not produce or commission these materials but assembled them as a digital corpus for qualitative analysis.
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Institutions
- Texas A&M International UniversityTexas, Laredo