Middle Eastern Literatures最新文献

{"title":"In memoriam","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/1475262x.2021.2038410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262x.2021.2038410","url":null,"abstract":"(2021). In memoriam. Middle Eastern Literatures: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 72-77.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"26 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138527061","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":"The problem with hybridity: a critique of Armeno-Turkish studies","authors":"A. Ghoogasian","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2023.2181572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2181572","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study of Armeno-Turkish Literature, or Turkish written in Armenian script, has boomed of late, posing a challenge to Turkish literary historiography's neglect of Armeno-Turkish texts. Though this scholarship has argued against the exclusion of Armenians from late Ottoman cultural history, it has also unintentionally reproduced the nationalist, exclusionary logic that such segregation rested upon in the first place. This article offers a critique of the now dominant scholarly understanding of Armeno-Turkish as a “hybrid” of ostensibly distinct late Ottoman-era Armenian and Turkish languages and cultures. It does so by reframing Turkish as an Armenian language, moving beyond the shortcomings of hybridity theory toward a more productive, “depropriative” idiom for the study of Armeno-Turkish that denationalizes the Turkish language.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"47 1","pages":"39 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83919677","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":"Dream interpretation and parodies of translation in Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’s al-Sāq ʿalā al-sāq","authors":"P. Carter","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2023.2170870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2170870","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq’s 1855 semiautobiographical picaresque al-Sāq ʿalā al-sāq (Leg Over Leg), the author’s double, the Fāriyāq, holds a series of jobs that parodically stand in for al-Shidyāq’s own employments. This article addresses the Fāriyāq’s career as an oneiromancer, reading it as an allegory of al-Shidyāq’s work as a Bible translator for European Protestant missionaries. By representing the muʿarrib (translator into Arabic) as the muʿabbir (dream interpreter), I argue, al-Shidyāq places the translator in a genealogy of professional interpreters, inheriting the tradition of early-modern Ottoman court interpreters who wielded the power of expertise against the social and economic power of their patrons. At a moment of historical shift from circuits of scribal patronage to a more horizontal print market, al-Shidyāq removes the oneiromantic tradition from its hierarchical patron economy and parodically reinscribes it in an emergent print culture, initiating an anonymous yet intimate community of laughter.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"9 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87467792","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":"Revolutions aesthetic: a cultural history of Ba'thist Syria","authors":"Molly Courtney","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2022.2131894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2022.2131894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"333 1","pages":"64 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86877428","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":"Richard van Leeuwen. The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings; and Muhsin J. al-Musawi. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures","authors":"Wen-chin Ouyang","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2022.2131240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2022.2131240","url":null,"abstract":"(and, in Chapter 1, cultural periodicals), leaving the reader uncertain whether the aesthetic responses Weiss identifies are also a feature of the broader Syrian cultural landscape, for example in poetry, drama, songs, or TV series. Although the monograph is written in clear and readable language, it is most accessible to a reader with some prior familiarity with Syrian and regional cultural and political history. The monograph is essential reading for anyone interested in Syrian cultural and intellectual history, contemporary Arabic literature and film, or the interactions between politics and aesthetic theory.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"251 1","pages":"66 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79407529","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":"“Was he Ramzi?” A short story by Samira Azzam","authors":"Ranya Abdelrahman, Ferial Khalifa","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2023.2194163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2194163","url":null,"abstract":"Samira Azzam (Samīra ʿAzzām; 1927-1967) was widely recognized by her contemporaries as an accomplished author, and her work has been described as “one of the most mature experiments in the short story” among Arab writers of the 1950s. During her short life Azzam published four short story collections, the last of which – al-Sāʿa wal-insān (1963; The Clock and the Man) –was exceptionally well received. Two additional short story collections were published posthumously, and while Azzam had begun work on a novel it remained incomplete at the time of her early and sudden death. Despite the enthusiastic reception of her work as it came out, as the years passed Azzam’s books all but disappeared from print. Her work received relatively little attention, with only a few exceptions, leaving a regrettable gap in the landscape of Palestinian, Arabic literature, and indeed Postcolonial literary study. It is difficult to say precisely why Azzam’s stories have been so ignored, given their quality and the ubiquitous sense of their value expressed by the critics of her day. Some put it down to the rise of interest in the novel, and a shift away from the short story. Others have attributed her neglect to Arab readers’ expectations of more explicitly political literature after the 1967 war. This neglect, thankfully, has been begun to see some remedy. The publication of the translated volumeOut of TIme (trans. Ranya Abdelrahman), which brings together stories from across Azzam’s collections, joins Joseph Farag’s critical discussion of her in Politics and Palestinian Literature in Exile, reminding the field ofAzzam’s brilliance and making her work available to English readers. The following story, “Hal kāna Ramzī?” (1963; “Was he Ramzi?”) appears here for the first time in English. A deceptively simple, many-layered story, it exemplifies Azzam’s insightful writing. Set in a close-knit, unnamed, coastal community where neighbors are keenly aware of one another’s business (much like Acre, where Azzam was born and raised), the story describes the long-lasting effects of a child going missing. With her trademark “impressionistic” characterization, Azzam convincingly inhabits the psyche of the missing child’s friend, Samih, who, as an adult, narrates a traumatic event of the loss, which he experienced as a young boy. The disappearance of Samih’s friend, the titular Ramzi, the narrator relates, turned him into an introvert whose soul was weighed down by fear. While most of the narrative focuses on the disappearance of Ramzi and its immediate aftermath, the story also looks through a wider reflective lens at the impact of childhood trauma on someone’s life. Azzam","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"71 1","pages":"57 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85143429","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":"Palestine’s YA fiction and identity in Ahlam Bsharat’s Code Name: Butterfly","authors":"Aida Fahmawi Watad","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2023.2165035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2165035","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article addresses a relatively neglected area of research: Palestinian literature for adolescents, adab al-yāfiʿīn [literature for adolescents] or Young Adult (YA) literature. It sheds light on how this literature addresses the unique problematics of growing up under occupation and considers how novels for young adults reflect the Palestinian teenager's consolidation of his or her identity in relation to the political and social conditions imposed by oppression. The essay surveys the phenomenon of Palestinian YA literature and focuses on a reading of Ahlam Bsharat’s novel Code Name: Butterfly [Ismī al-ḥarakī farāsha]. Bsharat's work is unique in the relatively limited tradition of Palestinian YA literature in its avoidance of ideology and didacticism, and in its attempt to turn the text itself into a holding space for Palestinian teens. Analysis shows how Butterfly legitimizes the experiences of young adults and gives voice to their lived experience.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"27 1","pages":"23 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77854742","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":"The translator of desires","authors":"K. Blankinship","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2022.2131900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2022.2131900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"70 1 1","pages":"254 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87692686","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":"Experimentation and the absurd in two plays by Syrian playwright Walīd Ikhlāṣī","authors":"Basilius Bawardi, Reem Ghanayem","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2022.2140582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2022.2140582","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Walīd Ikhlāṣī (1935–2022) is a modernist Syrian playwright who was part of a broader Arab movement experimenting with the theatre of the absurd. His experimental writings are based on a fundamental refusal to accept ready-made values – literary, cultural, or philosophical. In this experimentation he developed a truly unique style, set apart from his contemporaries. Examining two one-act plays: Ṭubūl al-iʿdām al-ʿasharah (The Ten Drums of Execution) and al-Mutʿah 21 (Pleasure 21), both published in 1965, this paper looks at his use of juxtaposition to create a productive ambiguity, and how this ambiguity is underscored in the works using author comments/stage direction, and varied techniques of dialogue. In both works, we find the tensions created by his experimentation bring forth a powerful sense of despair and injustice.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"50 1","pages":"228 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90550402","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":"Kamāl al-Dīn Banāʾī’s Bahrām va Bihrūz: A Persian romance qua mirror for princes in light of Aq Qoyunlu history","authors":"Chad G. Lingwood","doi":"10.1080/1475262X.2022.2150072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2022.2150072","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article proposes that Bāgh-i iram, a Persian masnavī by Kamāl al-Dīn Shīr- ʿ Alī Banāʾī, the narrative of which presents a love triangle involving brother-dynasts—hence its alternative title, Bahrām va Bihrūz—is a work of moral and ethical advice. The study posits that Banāʾī composed Bahrām va Bihrūz, which survives only in manuscript form, to honor his deceased patron, Ya ʿ qūb b. Ūzūn Ḥasan, leader of the Aq Qoyunlu, whose reputation as a debauchee-turned-penitent ruler Banā’ī employs to impart advice on avoiding sin and comporting oneself with rectitude. The article sheds light on Banāʾī, but also the statesmen-advisers, Qāżī Ṣafī al-Dīn ʿĪsāʾ and Shaikh Najm al-Dīn Masʿūd, and their involvement in Sulṭān Yaʿqūb's abandonment of venality. The study concludes that Bahrām va Bihrūz is unique within the literary tradition, in that its character-types, twin-brothers, and its focus on the faults of the poet's former patron are subjects not typically encountered in Persian masnavīs.","PeriodicalId":53920,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Literatures","volume":"3 1","pages":"209 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89031700","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}