Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 27
Childhood: Creativity and Representation
Edited by Ferial Ghazoul
Series: Alif
404 Pages, 6.50 x 9.50 in
- Paperback
- 9789774161131
- March 2008
- Region: Worldwide
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This issue of Alif is published on the centennial anniversary of the founding the first Casa dei Bambini, a progressive educational institution for children, which seeks an alternative mode in bringing them up and nurturing their independence. An extract from the writings of the pedagogue of this innovative method, Maria Montessori, is here translated into Arabic for the first time. This collection covers the universe of children through interviews, photo-essays, testimonies, and articles in psychology, philosophy, law, music, fiction, media, poetry, and drama, addressing varied aspects of childhood: from Shakespeare for children to puppet theater in Egypt; from plays for dispossessed camp children to children enlisted in militias; from the affluent and leisurely childhood of Virginia Woolf to the wonders of the early years of a poet like Muhammad Afifi Matar. Essays also explore heroism and ethical values in children’s literature, as well as musical adaptations of children’s literature and the art and craft of making books for children. Alif Volume 27
Contributors: Abdelfattah Abusrour, Saeed Alwakeel, Nasseif Azmy, Mia Carter, Sharif S. Elmusa, Adib Fattal, Stephannie S. Gearhart, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Amanie Fawzi Habashi, Gala El Hadidi, Thomas Hartwell, Sayyid Hegab, Nadia El Kholy, Mohieddin al-Labbad, Muhammad Afifi Matar, Tanya M. Monforte, Maria Montessori, Yasmine Motawy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Michal Oklot, Mounira Soliman, Wiam El-Tamami, Matthew Whoolery.
English Section:
• Sabry Hafez: Cultural Journals and Modern Arabic Literature: A Historical Overview
• Hannah Scott Deuchar: “Nahḍa”: Mapping a Keyword in Cultural Discourse
• Stephen Sheehi: Al-Kawakibi: From Political Journalism to a Political Science of the “Liberal” Arab Muslim
• Adam Spanos: Mediating Iltizām: The Discourse on Translation in the Early Years of al-Ādāb
• Hoda El Shakry: Printed Matter(s): Critical Histories and Perspectives on Tunisian Cultural Journals
• Mahmoud Zidan: Richard Wright as a Cold War Literary Journalist
• Francisco Rodríguez Sierra: Fictional Boundaries in the “Journalistic Fiction” of Gabriel García Márquez and Rabee Jaber
• Nancy Linthicum: The Cultural Newspaper Akhbar al-Adab and the Making of Egypt’s “Nineties Generation”
• Alexa Firat: Re-formed Discourse: Awrāq, Journal of the Syrian Writers’ Association
• Ahmed Morsi (Introduced and Interviewed by Hala Halim): Intermediality and Cultural Journalism
Arabic Section:
• Samy Soliman Ahmed: The Abridged Autobiography in al-Hilal Magazine: Narrative Components and Cultural Functions
• Alaaeldin Mahmoud: The Presence/Absence of a Literary Canon in al-Nadīm’s and Ṣannū‘’s Journals
• Shereen Abouelnaga: Journalistic Reception of Layla Ba‘albakki’s Literary Discourse
• Dina Heshmat: Writing Contemporary Algeria between Literature and Journalism
• Drew Paul: From Political Party Press to “Disruption” in Palestine: The Journalistic and Literary Website Qadita net
• Manal al-Natour: Intersections in Emerging Syrian Fiction with Journalism
• Hanin Hanafi: Literary Blogs, Towards a New Genre: The Case of Baghdad Burning
• Nezar Andary: Journalist and Writer Anthony Shadid: Personal Testimony and Critical Insights
• Wadei Philistin: My Life Between Journalism and Literature
• Ezzat El Kamhawi: Wrestling with the Tiger
Ferial J. Ghazoul is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She has written extensively on Medieval and Postcolonial literatures. She has translated works by Arab poets, including Matar, Haddad, Adonis, and Darwish, into English.
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