Antonio Pacifico
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
Ronen Zeidel, Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel After 2003: Literature and the Recovery of National Identity, Lexington Books, Lanham 2020, pp. 222.
Recensione, Anno XIV, numero 27, giugno 2024
Ronen Zeidel’s Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel After 2003: Literature and the Recovery of National Identity explores the presence of ethno-religious identities in the Iraqi literary output produced during the last two decades. This is an understudied subject in the field of Arabic studies. According to the author, these identities [...]
Iraqi fiction and the (re)emergence of ethno-religious identities: Muḥsin al-Ramlī’s strategies in Tamr al-aṣābiʿ and Ḥadāʾiq al-raʾīs
Articolo della rivista, Anno XIII, numero 26, dicembre 2023
In his essay on pluralism and Iraqi fiction, Ronen Zeidel included Muḥsin al-Ramlī in a group of Iraqi authors who started writing fiction to counter the discourse associating the Sunni identity with the Baath. Yet this scholar only devoted a few pages to the author’s literature, taking a quantitative approach [...]
Gli intellettuali e la censura nell’Egitto post-rivoluzionario: il caso di Madà Maṣr
Articolo della rivista, Anno X, numero 19, giugno 2020
In one of his latest articles, titled Un mai 68 Arabe? La révolution égyptienne au prisme du culturel (2015), Richard Jacquemond suggested to look at the Egyptian revolutionary period (2011-2013) as a cultural revolution that brought into question the so-called “nahḍawī paradigm”. Meanwhile, he called on researchers working on the [...]
Richard Jacquemond, Felix Lang (eds.), Culture and Crisis in the Arab World: Art, Practices and Production in Spaces of Conflict, I.B. Tauris, London/New York 2019, pp. 264.
Recensione, Anno X, numero 19, giugno 2020
Il volume edito da Richard Jacquemond e Felix Lang, dal titolo Culture and Crisis in the Arab World: Art, Practices and Production in Spaces of Conflict, è il risultato di un workshop che si è tenuto presso la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme nelle giornate del 7 e dell’8 [...]
