Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/1475262x.2023.2252774
Teresa Pepe
This article analyses the representation of the climate crisis and urban imaginaries in post-2011 Arabic science fiction (SF), arguing that Arabic SF, and its cross-genre of critical dystopian fiction, intersects with global climate fiction (cli-fi), while maintaining a horizon for hope. It compares two graphic novels written by authors of Egyptian origins, Aḥmad Nājī's Istikhdām al-Ḥayāt (2014; Using Life, 2017) and Ganzeer's English-language The Solar Grid (2016-2020), with two short stories authored by Iraq-born authors, “al-Mutakallim” (“The Worker”) by Ḍiyāʾ Jubaylī; and “Ḥadāʾīq Bābil” (“Gardens of Babylon”) by Ḥasan Blāsim, included in the collection al-ʿIrāq + 100 (2017; Iraq +100, 2016). Through the four works, future apocalyptic urban scenarios are imagined, linked to climate change, city mega-projects, and oil scarcity. Illuminating the unseen violence perpetrated by colonial forces and ruling elites, these visions prefigure the global reach of the climate catastrophe and contribute to understandings of Nixon's “slow violence” and Heise's “eco-cosmopolitanism”.
本文分析了2011年后阿拉伯科幻小说(SF)中气候危机和城市想象的表现，认为阿拉伯科幻小说及其跨类型的批判反乌托邦小说与全球气候小说(clifi)相交，同时保持了希望的地平线。它比较了两本埃及裔作家的漫画小说，Aḥmad Nājī的Istikhdām al-Ḥayāt (2014;使用Life(2017)和Ganzeer的英文《太阳能电网》(2016-2020)，其中有两个由伊拉克出生的作家创作的短篇故事，“al-Mutakallim”(“工人”)，作者:Ḍiyā;和Ḥasan Blāsim的“Ḥadā al- al Irāq + 100”(2017;伊拉克+100,2016年)。通过这四件作品，人们想象了未来世界末日的城市场景，与气候变化、城市大型项目和石油短缺有关。这些愿景照亮了殖民势力和统治精英所犯下的看不见的暴力，预示着气候灾难的全球影响，有助于理解尼克松的“缓慢暴力”和海斯的“生态世界主义”。
{"title":"Climate change and the future of the city: Arabic science fiction as climate fiction in Egypt and Iraq","authors":"Teresa Pepe","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2252774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2252774","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the representation of the climate crisis and urban imaginaries in post-2011 Arabic science fiction (SF), arguing that Arabic SF, and its cross-genre of critical dystopian fiction, intersects with global climate fiction (cli-fi), while maintaining a horizon for hope. It compares two graphic novels written by authors of Egyptian origins, Aḥmad Nājī's Istikhdām al-Ḥayāt (2014; Using Life, 2017) and Ganzeer's English-language The Solar Grid (2016-2020), with two short stories authored by Iraq-born authors, “al-Mutakallim” (“The Worker”) by Ḍiyāʾ Jubaylī; and “Ḥadāʾīq Bābil” (“Gardens of Babylon”) by Ḥasan Blāsim, included in the collection al-ʿIrāq + 100 (2017; Iraq +100, 2016). Through the four works, future apocalyptic urban scenarios are imagined, linked to climate change, city mega-projects, and oil scarcity. Illuminating the unseen violence perpetrated by colonial forces and ruling elites, these visions prefigure the global reach of the climate catastrophe and contribute to understandings of Nixon's “slow violence” and Heise's “eco-cosmopolitanism”.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/1475262x.2023.2252251
Seda Demiralp
Keloğlan stories deliver an anti-patriarchal message. The stories interpreted in this article narrate the male ego’s journey of individuation through an engagement with repressed psychic content, p...
{"title":"What do Keloğlan stories say about masculine anxieties and reclaiming masculinity?","authors":"Seda Demiralp","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2252251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2252251","url":null,"abstract":"Keloğlan stories deliver an anti-patriarchal message. The stories interpreted in this article narrate the male ego’s journey of individuation through an engagement with repressed psychic content, p...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1080/1475262x.2023.2194014
Maya Aghasi
{"title":"Garbage, corruption, and political protest in Lebanese literature and film","authors":"Maya Aghasi","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2194014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2194014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89640946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/1475262x.2023.2179388
R. Green
{"title":"Threading the racial capitalocene: on the poetics of affective porosity in Ibrahim al-Koni's Bleeding of the Stone (Nazīf al-ḥajar) and Yoel Hoffmann's Book of Joseph (Sefer Yosef)","authors":"R. Green","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2179388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2179388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78581891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/1475262X.2023.2242294
Renée Ragin Randall
ABSTRACT In the early 1970s, Syrian-born author, Ghada al-Samman authored two essays on the supernatural based, in part, on her experiences in Beirut. These essays mark the beginning of what I identify as her sustained literary interest in the supernatural. While al-Samman’s political investments as a feminist and leftist writer have been the primary lenses through which critics have considered her work, this essay recenters her literary contributions. Focusing on her Lebanese civil war trilogy, I explore how she constructs and sustains a supernatural literary sensibility over the course of several decades, amalgamating Arabo-Islamic cosmologies, Euro-American psychoanalytic notions, and Shakespearean aesthetics. The result, I argue, is a supernatural hermeneutic which highlights the irreparable damage of both pre-war and wartime environs to the individual soul and the body politic.
{"title":"Lebanon in the Devil’s Waters: the literary supernatural in Ghada al-Samman’s civil war trilogy","authors":"Renée Ragin Randall","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2023.2242294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2242294","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the early 1970s, Syrian-born author, Ghada al-Samman authored two essays on the supernatural based, in part, on her experiences in Beirut. These essays mark the beginning of what I identify as her sustained literary interest in the supernatural. While al-Samman’s political investments as a feminist and leftist writer have been the primary lenses through which critics have considered her work, this essay recenters her literary contributions. Focusing on her Lebanese civil war trilogy, I explore how she constructs and sustains a supernatural literary sensibility over the course of several decades, amalgamating Arabo-Islamic cosmologies, Euro-American psychoanalytic notions, and Shakespearean aesthetics. The result, I argue, is a supernatural hermeneutic which highlights the irreparable damage of both pre-war and wartime environs to the individual soul and the body politic.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"10 1","pages":"150 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79971933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/1475262X.2023.2243841
M. Kesrouany
ABSTRACT This article analyses Egyptian definitions of thaqāfa or “culture” from 1922 to 1954 by focusing on three intellectuals: Salama Musa (1887–1958), Taha Husayn (1889–1973), and Ramsis Yunan (1913–1966). It considers how their definitions complicated the European integration of the term into the Arabic language, and how they contrasted with other relevant terms such as tarbiya (moral education) and taʿlīm (institutional instruction). Examining the cultural idioms embedded in these definitions challenges a typography that assumes a radical break between Arab intellectuals before and after the 1950s. By examining how the adaptation of socialist thought nuanced these appropriations, the article shows how the three intellectuals propose a definition of thaqāfa that borrows from transnational aesthetics to produce localized formulations of socialist realism and surrealism and advocate for a local humanism that works to keep literature and the arts outside of state control while educating people to resist fascist movements.
本文以萨拉玛·穆萨(1887-1958)、塔哈·侯赛因(1889-1973)和拉姆西斯·尤南(1913-1966)这三位知识分子为研究对象，分析了1922年至1954年间埃及人对thaqāfa或“文化”的定义。它考虑了它们的定义如何使欧洲将该术语整合到阿拉伯语中变得复杂，以及它们如何与其他相关术语(如tarbiya(道德教育)和ta al - l - m(制度教育))形成对比。考察这些定义中嵌入的文化习语，挑战了一种假定20世纪50年代前后阿拉伯知识分子之间存在根本分歧的版式。通过研究社会主义思想的适应如何微妙地改变这些挪用，文章展示了三位知识分子如何提出thaqāfa的定义，该定义借用跨国美学来产生社会主义现实主义和超现实主义的本地化公式，并倡导一种地方人文主义，这种人文主义致力于将文学和艺术置于国家控制之外，同时教育人们抵制法西斯运动。
{"title":"Culture outside of the state: aesthetics and education in the works of Salama Musa, Taha Husayn, and Ramsis Yunan","authors":"M. Kesrouany","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2023.2243841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2243841","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses Egyptian definitions of thaqāfa or “culture” from 1922 to 1954 by focusing on three intellectuals: Salama Musa (1887–1958), Taha Husayn (1889–1973), and Ramsis Yunan (1913–1966). It considers how their definitions complicated the European integration of the term into the Arabic language, and how they contrasted with other relevant terms such as tarbiya (moral education) and taʿlīm (institutional instruction). Examining the cultural idioms embedded in these definitions challenges a typography that assumes a radical break between Arab intellectuals before and after the 1950s. By examining how the adaptation of socialist thought nuanced these appropriations, the article shows how the three intellectuals propose a definition of thaqāfa that borrows from transnational aesthetics to produce localized formulations of socialist realism and surrealism and advocate for a local humanism that works to keep literature and the arts outside of state control while educating people to resist fascist movements.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"28 1","pages":"113 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76925030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/1475262X.2023.2241196
Margaret Geoga
ABSTRACT This article explores literary reception in ancient Egypt, focusing on the enigmatic poem The Teaching of Amenemhat, ca. 1550–500 BCE. Combining material philology, textual criticism, and reception theory, the article investigates how the poem’s readers interpreted it by examining the contexts in which manuscripts were read, the textual interventions copyists made, and the cultural currents that shaped readers’ expectations. The article introduces Amenemhat, before discussing several individual readers and their encounters with the poem. Next, based on textual analysis of the surviving manuscripts, the article identifies interpretive trends occurring over time. The article then contextualizes the poem’s reception within scribal culture. A final section discusses the innovative reception of Amenemhat by the Nubian king Taharqo. The article aims to bridge the gap between Egyptology and literary studies by using ancient Egyptian literature to explore new approaches to reception history and by introducing this understudied poem to a wider audience.
{"title":"Between literature and history: receptions of poetry in ancient Egypt","authors":"Margaret Geoga","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2023.2241196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2241196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores literary reception in ancient Egypt, focusing on the enigmatic poem The Teaching of Amenemhat, ca. 1550–500 BCE. Combining material philology, textual criticism, and reception theory, the article investigates how the poem’s readers interpreted it by examining the contexts in which manuscripts were read, the textual interventions copyists made, and the cultural currents that shaped readers’ expectations. The article introduces Amenemhat, before discussing several individual readers and their encounters with the poem. Next, based on textual analysis of the surviving manuscripts, the article identifies interpretive trends occurring over time. The article then contextualizes the poem’s reception within scribal culture. A final section discusses the innovative reception of Amenemhat by the Nubian king Taharqo. The article aims to bridge the gap between Egyptology and literary studies by using ancient Egyptian literature to explore new approaches to reception history and by introducing this understudied poem to a wider audience.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"66 1","pages":"69 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87430900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/1475262X.2022.2255482
Marlé Hammond
{"title":"Reorienting modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry","authors":"Marlé Hammond","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2022.2255482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2022.2255482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"1 1","pages":"189 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82946272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：