Alessandro Columbu
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
Exile, Affiliation and Marginality in Syria’s Literature: a Process of Un-Labelling
Articolo della rivista, Anno XII, numero 23, giugno 2022
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 [...]
Representations of Female Eroticism in Zakariyyā Tāmir: The Women’s Revolution from Object to Subject
Articolo della rivista, Anno VI, Numero 12, dicembre 2016
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 [...]
