Importancia del folclore para Tawfiq Zayyād a través de sus ensayos sobre poesía popular palestina y el poema parapopular "Sirḥān y el oleoducto"

Abstract

Centers on the Palestinian poet Tawfiq Zayyād`s interest in folklore as reflected in his poetry as well as in his essays on the Palestinian folk literature gathered in his two books "About Literature and Palestinian Folk-Literature", 1970 and "Examples of Palestinian Folk Literature", 1974. The genesis and content of both works are presented, together with a translation of the poem «Sirhān and the Pipeline», inspired in different oral genres.