Commitment and Beyond : Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s

Content

• Imprint; Table of Contents / Inhaltsverzeichnis; Acknowledgments

  p. 4

• Introduction: Tracks and Traces of Literary Commitment — On "Iltizām" as an Ongoing Intellectual Project

  p. 9

  Albers, Yvonne; Khalil, Georges; Pannewick, Friederike

• The Egyptian Colloquial Poet as Popular Intellectual: A Differentiated Manifestation of Commitment

  p. 29

  Abou-Bakr, Randa

• Rewriting Resistance: The Revival of Poetry of Dissent in Egypt after January 2011 (Surūr, Najm and Dunqul)

  p. 45

  Botros, Atef

• Egyptian Narratives of the 2011 Revolution: Diary as a Medium of Reconciliation with the Political

  p. 63

  Heshmat, Dina

• Beyond Commitment

  p. 79

  Ḫūrī, Ilyās

• The Intellectual Revolt of the 1950s and the “Fall of the Udabāʾ"

  p. 89

  Di-Capua, Yoav

• On the Trail of Frantz Fanon

  p. 105

  Ouaissa, Rachid

• Between Commitment and Marginalization: The ‘Generation of the Sixties’ in the Sadat Era

  p. 125

  Guth, Stephan

• The Arabic Novel between Aesthetic Concerns and the Causes of Man: Commitment in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and ʿAbd al-Rahman Munif

  p. 143

  Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja

• The Day the Wandering Dreamer Became a Fida’i: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and the Fashioning of Political Commitment

  p. 157

  Halabi, Zeina G.

• The Afterlives of "Iltizām": Emile Habibi through a Kanafaniesque Lens of Resistance Literature

  p. 171

  Abu-Remaileh, Refqa

• You, The Sacrificial Reader: Poetics and Pronouns in Mahmoud Darwish’s “al-Qurbān”

  p. 185

  Allan, Michael

• Molding the Clay: Muẓaffar al-Nawwāb’s Concept of Colloquial Poetry as Art of Resistance

  p. 201

  Tramontini, Leslie

• Sargūn Būluṣ’s Commitment

  p. 213

  Anṭūn, Sinān

• From the Politicization of Theater to Individual Humanism: Towards a New Concept of Engagement in the Theater of Saadallah Wannous

  p. 221

  Pannewick, Friederike

• Fiction of Scandal

  p. 237

  El-Ariss, Tarek

• On Affect and Emotion as Dissent: The "Kifaya" Rhetoric in Pre-Revolutionary Egyptian Literature

  p. 253

  Junge, Christian

• A Body of Dissenting Images: Kamāl al-Riyāḥī’s Novel "Al-Ghurillā" Read as an Example of Engaged Literature from Tunisia

  p. 273

  Pardey, Charlotte

• Narrating, Metaphorizing or Performing the Unforgettable?: The Politics of Trauma in Contemporary Arabic Literature

  p. 285

  Milich, Stephan

• Redeemed from Politics: Notions of Literary Legitimacy in the Lebanese Literary Field

  p. 303

  Lang, Felix

• The Empty Chair: On the Politics of Spectatorial Situatedness in the Performances of Rabih Mroué

  p. 317

  Albers, Yvonne

• Whatever Happened to "Iltizām"?: Words in Arab Art after the Cold War

  p. 333

  Toukan, Hanan

• Notes on the Contributors

  p. 351