From Prison To The World: A Comparative Reading Of Naji’S Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence, 2020) And Abd El-Fattah’S You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (2021),
2025
University of Oslo
From Prison To The World: A Comparative Reading Of Naji’S Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence, 2020) And Abd El-Fattah’S You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (2021), Teresa Pepe
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This article analyses Ahmed Naji’s Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence) and Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated through the lens of ‘prison literature’, that is “literary works produced in, about, or through the experience of political detention” (Taleghani 13). Comparing them to previous forms of prison literature from Egypt, it shows that both books depart from the social-realistic mode that has prevailed throughout the 20th century. Rather they renovate the genre with aesthetic traits drawn from postmodern and digital literature, exemplified by autofictional or anonymous modes of authorship and co-authorship, narrative fragmentation, and bodily exposures. These aesthetic …
Khairy Shalaby’S Novel The City Of The Enslaved: Egyptian Prison Literature With A Russian Twist,
2025
University of Navarra
Khairy Shalaby’S Novel The City Of The Enslaved: Egyptian Prison Literature With A Russian Twist, Sarali Gintsburg
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Although the interconnectedness of Russian and Arabic literatures has been demonstrated by Soviet/Russian and, to a limited extent, Western Arabists, this research remains limited to a few names. However, the role that the Russian/Soviet literary tradition had in shaping contemporary genres of Arabic literature is complex and diverse. This is, for instance, the case with prison literature—Russian/Soviet literature has a long tradition of turning to the topic of imprisonment. It was Dostoyevsky, who turned to the genre of katorzhnaya proza (prison literature) and popularized it. Later, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Gorky dedicated a number of their influential literary works to further …
Terrorists, Spies, And Diplomatic Crises: The Birth Of Morocco’S Multimedia Prison Literature,
2025
Williams College
Terrorists, Spies, And Diplomatic Crises: The Birth Of Morocco’S Multimedia Prison Literature, Brahim El Guabli
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This article captures the literary shift that accompanied the transformation of the nature of political imprisonment in Morocco in the last twenty years. Focusing on the new victims of state violence, who fall within two categories: prisoners accused of terrorism and those accused of heinous sexual crimes, this article argues that the emergence of these new criminal profiles has led to the establishment of a transnational “Multimedia Prison Literature” (MPL). Drawing on the cases of Ali Arras, a Belgian-Moroccan whom Spain delivered to Morocco for terrorist charges, and Mohamed Hajib, a German-Moroccan citizen whom Germany extradited to his country of …
The Absurdity Of Liberation In Moroccan Prison Narratives,
2025
University of Abdelmalek Essaadi
The Absurdity Of Liberation In Moroccan Prison Narratives, Hakima Choukri
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Moroccan prison narratives have been credited with major political and social changes, yet their existential value is equally worth acknowledging. The prison narratives of Aziz Binebine, Mohamed Raiss, Malika Oufkir, and Fatna El Bouih, to mention but a few, are fraught with existentialist patterns that are uncovered upon reading them comparatively. One pattern that persists through these narratives is the absurdity of liberation. Borrowing Camus’ concept of the absurd, this article highlights the absurdity of the post-prison chapter for being nothing more than an extension of the prison episode that makes the impossibility of freedom acutely felt. The absurdity of …
Captivity, Resistance And Political Consciousness In Walid Daqqa’S Prison Literature,
2025
Birmingham City University
Captivity, Resistance And Political Consciousness In Walid Daqqa’S Prison Literature, Ashjan Ajour
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This article examines the prison literature of the Palestinian intellectual Walid Daqqa who has been serving a life sentence for resistance since 1986 in Israeli prisons. From the depth of his experience he writes about his conceptualization of captivity, colonial violence, the resistance of the Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system and the construction of Palestinian national imagination in his book Consciousness Molded: or The Re-Identification of Palestinian Torture (2010) Published in Arabic and his first young adults novel The Story of the Oil’s Secret (Ḥikayat Sir al-Zeit) published in 2018 in Arabic. Daqqa has become …
Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing From Captivity,
2025
Birzeit University
Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing From Captivity, Basil Farraj
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
This article discusses writings by Palestinian political prisoners and the broader body of prison literature situating them as practices of ‘smuggling freedom’ from Israel’s carceral regime, shedding light onto their political and social meaning. Through discussing writings by prisoners, the article points to a long history through which Palestinian prisoners confronted the Israeli regime’s torture and violent practices, and its broader project of eliminating the political nature of captivity. The article argues that prisoners’ writings reveal much about the dynamics of carceral power and violence, and the logic behind the confrontation practices used by prisoners in Palestine and beyond. These …
New Approaches To Mena Prison Literatures After 2011,
2025
Forum Transregionale Studien
New Approaches To Mena Prison Literatures After 2011, Anne-Marie Mcmanus
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Review Of Lives Remembered: A Memoir,
2025
Ateneo de Manila University
Review Of Lives Remembered: A Memoir, Eileen R. Tabios
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Beauty And Gore: Unsettling Audiences In The 2018 Production Of Ang Paglilitis Ni Mang Serapio,
2025
Villanueva University
Beauty And Gore: Unsettling Audiences In The 2018 Production Of Ang Paglilitis Ni Mang Serapio, Sophia Martha B. Marco, Svetlana Antropova
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Review Of Posthumous: Poems,
2025
University of Santo Tomas
Review Of Posthumous: Poems, Mark Anthony S. Angeles
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
“Dead Stars” The Revolutionary Politics Of The Edenic Past,
2025
University of the Philippines Diliman
“Dead Stars” The Revolutionary Politics Of The Edenic Past, Rosario Cruz-Lucero
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
This study undertakes a comprehensive, close reading of the original version of Paz Marquez Benitez’s (PMB’s) “Dead Stars,” published in the Philippines Herald in 1925. Previous critical essays have explicated selected aspects of the 1975 version edited and published by Leopoldo Yabes, based on some of its elements and techniques. On the other hand, this close reading is supplemented by empirical data gathered through historical research, including the cultural forms of the three Philippine traditions: indigenous, Hispanic, and colonial American. Weaving through the intertextual reading is the use of PMB’s biography, sources and influences, specifically the story’s historical context, milieu, …
Review Of Will You Happen, Past The Silence, Through The Dark?: Remembering Leonard Casper,
2025
Broward College
Review Of Will You Happen, Past The Silence, Through The Dark?: Remembering Leonard Casper, L. M. Grow
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Review Of So Heaven,
2025
Ateneo de Manila University
Review Of So Heaven, Francessca S. Abalos
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Interview With Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.,
2025
University of the Philippines
Interview With Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., Caroline Howard, Jose Y. Dalisay
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Review Of Notes On Bakya And Other Essays,
2025
University of the Philippines Diliman
Review Of Notes On Bakya And Other Essays, Jose Monfred C. Sy
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Review Of Everything Is Fiction: Essays,
2025
University of Santo Tomas
Review Of Everything Is Fiction: Essays, Mark Anthony S. Angeles
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Rereading Nick Joaquin As A Devil’S Advocate “La Naval De Manila” (1943) In Context,
2025
Ateneo de Manila University
Rereading Nick Joaquin As A Devil’S Advocate “La Naval De Manila” (1943) In Context, Luisa L. Gomez
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
Nick Joaquin characterized himself as a “devil’s advocate” for taking contrarian positions in Philippine cultural history. His early essay “ La Naval de Manila” is taken as an example of such. A re-examination of the essay within its original context of the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, however, reveals that Joaquin’s early historical imagination must be understood less as an act of rebellion and more as a product of negotiation. It navigates multiple audiences and overlapping empires—the Spanish past it venerates, the American period whose language it uses, and the Japanese present that enabled its publication. Its power lies not …
Review Of Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook On Philippine Speculative Fiction.,
2025
Ateneo de Manila University
Review Of Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook On Philippine Speculative Fiction., Roy Tristan B. Agustin
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Tributes To Gregorio Brillantes,
2025
Ateneo de Manila University
Tributes To Gregorio Brillantes, Jonathan Chua
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
Review Of Oha: A Story Told In One Eternal Second,
2025
Ateneo de Manila University
Review Of Oha: A Story Told In One Eternal Second, Celeste Aida Abad Jugo
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
No abstract provided.
