Cristina Dozio

Articolo della Rivista, Anno V, Numeri 9-10, dicembre 2015

in La rivista di Arablit, a. V, n. 9-10, dicembre 2015, pp. 54-71. Over the past five years, socio-political changes in Egypt have stemmed from and – at the same time – contributed to the emergence of a new sensitivity, which has been expressed in various forms of art such as cinema, graffiti, music and literature. As far as fiction is concerned, various subgenres (diaries, blogs and popular literature) have contributed to a renewal of the genre. This essay looks at ʻAlā’ al-Aswānī’s Nādī al-sayyārāt (Automobile Club, 2013) as an example of the aforementioned new sensitivity or [...]