{"title":"Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares: questions of human agency and free will in Aḥmad Saʿdāwī’s Frankenstein in Baghdad","authors":"Jamil Khader","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2024.2318207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2024.2318207","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the major fantastic conceit, the Whatsitname (the shisma), in Ahmad Sa'dāwī's novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad, functions as an allegory for the repressed totality of necroca...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"105 18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140017397","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}
Khaled Mostafa Karam, Hamdy Ebeid Khalil, Mahmoud El Bagoury
{"title":"Mapping exile: post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring","authors":"Khaled Mostafa Karam, Hamdy Ebeid Khalil, Mahmoud El Bagoury","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2024.2308845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2024.2308845","url":null,"abstract":"Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring (Rabīʿ al-shatāt, 2019) scrutinizes the critical effects of the Arab Spring on Arab youth, offering a multilayered portrayal of the present Middle East and its revolu...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"53 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139926395","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}
{"title":"On the animating affect of ṭarab and its (un)translatability","authors":"Dina A. Mahmoud","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2024.2304842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2024.2304842","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the (un)translatability of ṭarab—typically understood as feeling ecstasy in response to poetic and musical performances—in the recitation of Arabic poems and their translation...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139750774","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}
{"title":"Subjectivity, agency, and the question of gender in Fadwa Tuqan’s post-naksa poetry","authors":"Linda Istanbulli","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2024.2309640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2024.2309640","url":null,"abstract":"After the naksa, Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan composed her famous “I Shall Not Weep,” which she later included in her first resistance-themed collection: The Night and Knights. In this poem, Tuqan ...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139750579","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}
{"title":"“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2286760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2286760","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Middle Eastern Literatures (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515478","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}
{"title":"Counter creaturely communities in Emily Nasrallah’s Yawmīyyāt Hirr and Hoda Barakat’s Barīd al-Layl","authors":"Yasmine Khayyat","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2287244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2287244","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the possibilities as well as the limits of creaturely solidarity in Lebanese novelist Emily Nasrallah's (d. 2018) young adult novel Yawmīyyāt Hirr (A Cat's Diary), first publi...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138679721","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}
{"title":"Exhausting aesthetic critiques of the authoritarian present in Egyptian literature from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm to Muḥammad Rabīʿ","authors":"Brady Patrick Ryan","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2251909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2251909","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I outline a trajectory of aesthetic critique of the authoritarian present in Egypt from Ṣunʿallāh Ibrāhīm’s novellas Tilka al-rāʾiḥa and 67 to Muḥammad Rabīʿ’s ʿUṭārid, from the disappointments and defeats of the Nasser era to the despair of the postrevolutionary present. This trajectory of critique emerges from progressive time’s collapse upon the present and is rooted in aesthetics of exhaustion and disgust. I read Ibrāhīm’s physiological and sexualized aesthetics as political and social critique and show how Rabīʿ intensifies them by charging them with violence. I argue that Rabīʿ’s subsumption of past and future into ʿUṭārid’s apocalyptic hellscape expresses the totalizing nature of authoritarian violence. Lastly, I argue that Rabīʿ’s aestheticization of violence is the culmination of a critical project whose origins I trace back to Ibrāhīm.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740742","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}
{"title":"In search of the “voice of the people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s third-worldist genres","authors":"Maru Pabón","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2251419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2251419","url":null,"abstract":"In the years following the Bandung Conference of 1955, poetry that captured the “voice of the people” became a strategy of the project of Third-Worldism. Mahmoud Darwish (b. 1941, Birwah, d. 2008, ...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512469","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}
{"title":"Hackneyed phrases: lingual migrations in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North","authors":"Adnan Mahmutović","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2023.2251412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2023.2251412","url":null,"abstract":"Tayeb Salih’s world-literary classic Mawsim al-hijra ilā al-shimāl (1966) has served World Literature as the preeminent text of postcolonialism, touching on issues of identity, nationality, culture...","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"36 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512503","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}