Orientalische Literatur

Die bislang unerzählte Geschichte von Anne Franks weltberühmtem Tagebuch schließt eine Leerstelle in der Erzählung über Anne FrankAnne Frank träumte davon, eines Tages eine berühmte Schriftstellerin zu werden. Ihr Vater Otto Frank, der den Krieg als einziges Familienmitglied überlebte, wollte seiner Tochter diesen Wunsch erfüllen und machte die Verbreitung von Annes Tagebuch zu seinem Lebensinhalt. 1947 erschien 'Het Achterhuis' in den Niederlanden, 1950 wurde die erste deutsche Ausgabe veröffentlicht. Heute zählt das Tagebuch zu den meistgelesenen Büchern der Welt; die Wirkung, die es seit der Nachkriegszeit entfaltet, ist unvergleichlich und ungebrochen. Doch die Geschichte seines Erfolgs ist geprägt von Hindernissen und Rückschlägen - und weitgehend unbekannt. Kenntnisreich entschlüsselt Thomas Sparr, wie es entstanden ist, wie es verbreitet wurde, wie es auf der ganzen Welt rezipiert wird und warum es uns bis heute nicht loslässt.

How might art disrupt Arabophobia and Islamophobia in the US? In Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, Mazen Naous argues that fiction is one of the ways in which Arab Americans can correct dominant narratives of themselves with representation of their lived realities. Looking at both the aesthetics and politics in contemporary Arab American novels, Naous demonstrates that the novels' poetics cannot be extricated from or subsumed under political content. In his finely textured analyses of form and style, Naous uncovers crucial transcultural and transpoetic solidarities that extend beyond the politics of representation. Naous's book offers analyses of Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz and Crescent, Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War, Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land, and Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf as ways to answer this question. Naous explores how these novels negotiate queer desire, music, Western and Middle Eastern art, gender, and relationships between other minorities. These poetics enable readers to see the nuance and richness of Arab American experience. Naous ultimately argues that fiction creates crucial spaces for reimagining and redefining intercultural relationships.

The first publication in a new series-Christian Arabic Texts in Translation, edited by Stephen Davis-this book presents English-language excerpts from thirteenth-century commentaries on the Apocalypse of John by two Egyptian authors, B¿lus al-B¿sh¿ and Ibn K¿tib Qas.ar. Accompanied by scholarly introductions and critical annotations, this edition will provide a valuable entry-point to important but understudied theological work taking place at the at the meeting-points of the medieval Christian and Muslim worlds.

The articles in Alif 37 address the intersection of literature and journalism, in a wide variety of Arabophone, Francophone, Anglophone, and Latin American contexts, analyzing the literary in relation to an array of journalistic genres and forums, including the interview, investigative journalism, the questionnaire, the blogosphere, creative non-fiction and reportage, literary websites, cultural periodicals, the autobiographical essay, and writers' opinion articles. Complemented by the testimonies of two journalist-littérateurs and an interview with an artist-poet-art critic, the studies present fresh aspects of Arab literary modernity, littérature engagée, the politics of reception and translation in cultural journalism, canon-formation in relation to journalism, the journalistic delineation of a literary generation's profile, gender and censorship of creative writers, and revolution and civil strife.

Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry maps an interdisciplinary model of critical inquiry to demonstrate the intimate link between poetry and resistance.

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