Daniela Potenza
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
The Text in Progress in Contemporary Arab Theatre as an Aesthetic Response to Social Instability
Articolo della rivista, Anno XIII, numero 26, dicembre 2023
Over the previous decade, Arab countries have witnessed and lived transformations that the theatrical scene has swiftly accompanied, supported, and recalled. Analysing a selection of post-2011 Arab theatre plays whose texts are written to constantly change, I argue that an “aesthetic or progress” in these texts is developing, and that [...]
Andeel’s Full and Frank Cartoons. A Study of Language and Register Variations
Articolo della rivista, Anno X, numero 20, dicembre 2020
In recent years, Andeel’s audacious caricatures for the independent Egyptian online newspaper Madà Maṣr have become quite famous among upper class millennial Egyptians. Despite the potentially boundless space of his cartoons, Andeel mostly uses the Colloquial Egyptian Arabic. Nevertheless, he often code-switches and alternates the Colloquial with Modern Standard Arabic [...]
Roger Allen, Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Francisco M. Rodríguez Sierra y Tetz Rooke (eds.), New Geographies: Texts and Contexts in Modern Arabic Literature, Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 2018, pp. 296.
Recensione, Anno X, numero 19, giugno 2020
New Geographies: Texts and Contexts in Modern Arabic Literature è l’undicesimo volume dell’European Association for Modern Arabic Literature (EURAMAL). Frutto del convegno New Geographies and Genres in Modern Arabic Literature, tenutosi presso l’Universidad Autónoma de Madrid dal 7 al 10 maggio 2014, lo studio si inserisce nel solco dei suoi [...]
al-Bāb et Iram aux colonnes. La réécriture du mythe
Articolo della rivista, Anno VI, Numero 11, giugno 2016
In 1964, Ġassān Kanafānī wrote the play al-Bāb (The Door). In its foreword and in a final note to the play, Kanafānī claimed that al-Bāb’s topic was the myth of Iram ḏāt al-ʿimād (Iram of the Pillars) as it appears in the Quran, in Yāqūt’s Dictionary of Countries and in [...]
