Female oral poetry was excluded from Somali literary canon as mere women’s work

Evidence

Buraanbur is a specifically female form of Somali poetry — composed and performed by women, often at weddings and celebrations. It is rhythmic, communal, and has historically been excluded from formal anthologies of Somali literature. … Buraanbur is often performed in call-and-response with dancing. The 7-year-old will hear that this is a different kind of poetry from Hadraawi’s gabay — more communal, more bodily. … Buraanbur was for centuries excluded from collections of Somali literature because it was ‘just’ women’s work. Now scholars are recovering it. — , A Year of World Stories, 282

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how the ‘folk vs. literature’ boundary is a gendered gatekeeping mechanism, with buraanbur as the case study.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s the-canon-is-architecture thread and to wider work on gendered erasure in literary archives. — connects to: Hinterland Somali history rests mainly on oral tradition.; Historians have excluded black women from accounts of the women’s rights movement

Related

• Hinterland Somali history rests mainly on oral tradition. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Historians have excluded black women from accounts of the women’s rights movement #corroborates (0.60)