Marcella Rubino
Articoli e Recensioni pubblicati per La rivista di Arablit
Articoli e Recensioni pubblicati per La rivista di Arablit
in La rivista di Arablit, a. XI, n. 21-22, giugno-dicembre 2021, pp. 31-44. The Egyptian writer Yūsuf Zaydān is part of the tradition – dating from the age of the Nahḍah – of intellectuals as “educators of consciousness”. Since then, faced with a national narrative controlled by political or religious power, Arabic literature has often revisited history with the aim of restoring – through the freedom offered by fictional discourse – the truth overshadowed by official history. Yūsuf Zaydān’s work aims at creating both a new self-awareness and a new perception of the Other within Egyptian society. [...]
