ARABIC LITERATURE

The course aims to complete the knowledge of the main figures and currents of Arabic literature.

It sets out to face a central question in the history of Arabic literature since its origins, the question of its relationship with alterity, providing students with a) improvements in their linguistic competence through reading, interpretation and analysis of texts in Arabic; b) critical and methodological instruments for analysis and in-depth study; c) awareness of the historical—literary problems also from the “comparatist philological” perspective.

Lectures.

Module 1

The otherness in Siculo-Arabic and Andalusi travel literature

Module 2

Otherness in Modern Era; the idea of Nation and the encounter with Europe.

Module 3

Otherness and Arab theatre: the comparison with Europe and with Tradition

Module 1 (3 ects)

- M. Cassarino (a cura di), Lo sguardo sull’altro, lo sguardo dell’altro. L’alterità in testi medievali, Introduzione di A. Pioletti, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2011, 124 pp.

- S. Pagani (a cura di), L’altro nella cultura araba, Presentazione di M.F. Corrao, Mesogea, Messina 2006, pp. 111-217.

Module 2 (3 ects)

- L. Casini, M. E. Paniconi, L. Sorbera, Modernità arabe. Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano, Mesogea, Messina, 2013 (pp. 7-242).

Module 3 (3 ects)

- Ruocco Monica, Storia del teatro arabo: dalla Nahda a oggi, Carocci (2010), pp. 13-213.

A selection of texts in Arabic language will be given by the teachers during the classes.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.