Alessandro Columbu
Articoli e Recensioni pubblicati per La rivista di Arablit
Exile, Affiliation and Marginality in Syria’s Literature: a Process of Un-Labelling
Alessandro Columbu2023-10-06T17:24:56+00:00Articolo della Rivista, Anno XII, numero 23, giugno 2022
in La rivista di Arablit, a. XII, n. 23, giugno 2022, pp. 85-99. The unprecedented wave of protests and the subsequent reaction of the Syrian regime to the popular uprising of 2011 have transformed Syria’s field of cultural production exposing disparate political affiliations and giving way to open manifestations of dissent to authoritarianism. This article explores Syria’s field of cultural production and in particular the role of writers vis-à-vis the resilience of authoritarian rule and the emergence of large-scale contestation in their country. By looking at the different trajectories of Zakariyyā Tāmir and Ḫālid Ḫalīfah, two of [...]
Representations of Female Eroticism in Zakariyyā Tāmir: The Women’s Revolution from Object to Subject
Alessandro Columbu2020-02-27T09:48:56+00:00Articolo della Rivista, Anno VI, Numero 12, dicembre 2016
in La rivista di Arablit, a. VI, n. 12, dicembre 2016, pp. 7-27. This paper analyses the representations of the female body and of female sexuality in the works of Zakariyyā Tāmir (b. 1931). Motivating this focus on female eroticism is the desire to scrutinise its socio-political value contextualising it in the historical events of Syria, in the context of the collapse of the totalising nationalist ideologies world as analysed by Abu Deeb as well as its impact in a neopatriarchal milieu as described by Sharabi. In particular, this development is punctuated in the early period of [...]
