LINGUA E LETTERATURA ARABA 2 CON LABORATORIO

Consolidating skills in the context of translation and interpretative and linguistic analysis of both written and oral texts. Reading, translating and analysing literary texts in standard, mixed and spoken Arabic. Producing complex written and oral texts in Modern Standard Arabic on the topics dealt with during the classes, based on the literary texts and newspaper articles examined. Arabic for special purposes: consolidating skills related to the Modern Standard Arabic language used in business domain. Consolidating language skills in Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic.

Lectures.

Language

Module 1 (3 ECTS):

Written and Spoken Language in Contemporary Arabic Culture

Introduction to Media Arabic

Introduction to key theoretical and methodological terms to analyse contemporary Arabic written language and culture.

Egyptian Arabic (asking about directions, daily routine, talking about job, offering and inviting, accepting apologies, asking for services).

Moroccan Arabic (time, daily routine, at café, shopping, at the restaurant, in the city, traveling).

Reading the Arabic newspapers.

Arabic for special purposes: business language.

Module 2 (6 ECTS):

Arabic Language varieties in Contemporary Egyptian Novels

Reading and analysis of literary texts written in standard and mixed Arabic. Linguistic and literary analysis in the light of the history of Arabic literature and of the contemporary political and social context. Reading of literary criticism in Arabic. Writing of a brief essay of literary criticism, based on a text assigned during the lectures.

Module 3 (3 ECTS):

Arabic 2.0 between new media and new literary genres.

Reading and analysis of literary texts written in standard, mixed and spoken Arabic drawn from contemporary satirical literature, graphic novels and literary blogs. Analysis of the main linguistic and literary features; critical discussion concerning the adoption of new media and new literary genres in Egypt.

Module 1 (3 ECTS):

Written and Spoken Language in Contemporary Arabic Culture

M. Effat Ragia, 2008, "Media Arabic" in EALL, pp. 199-204.

Id. "Media", in EALL, p. 192-199.

Høigilt, Jacob, & Mejdell, Gunvor. « Introduction ». In The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 2017, pp. 1-17, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004346178_002

Mejdell, Gunvor. " Changing Norms, Concepts and Practices of Written Arabic: A ‘Long Distance’ Perspective". In The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 2017, pp. 68-89. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004346178_005

Brustad, Kristen. « Diglossia as Ideology ». In The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 2017, pp. 41-67. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004346178_004

S. Darghmouni, Arabo per affari. Guida al linguaggio nel mondo del lavoro. Hoepli, Milano 2016, pp. 47-71; 81-99.

S. Louis, Kallimni ‘Arabi bishweesh, The American University in Cairo, Cairo/New York, 2008 (e ristampe), pp. 123-213.

A. Chekayri, An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture, Georgetown University Press, Washington, 2012, pp. 110-269.

Module 2 (6 ECTS):

Language Varieties in Contemporary Egyptian Novels

Davies, Humphrey T. “Dialect Literature.” In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, online edition, edited by Lutz Edzard and Rudolf de Jong. Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp. 597-604.

Doss, Madiha. “Cultural Dynamics and Linguistic Practice.” In Cultural Dynamics in Contemporary Egypt, edited by Maha Abdelrahman, Iman A. Hamdy, Marak Rouchdy and Reem Saad, 51–68. Cairo: AUC Press, 2006.

Dozio, Cristina.. «Nāʾil Al-Ṭūḫī, Nisāʾ Al-Karantīnā (Donne Di Karantina)». Altre Modernità, n. 15 (May 2016): 329-33. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/7200.

El-Ariss, Tarek. “Hacking the Modern: Arabic Writing in the Virtual Age.” Comparative Literature Studies 47, no. 4 (2010): 533–48.

Jacquemond, R. « The Yacoubian Building and its sisters: Reflections on readership and written culture in modern Egypt”. Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman, Eds. Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook. 2013, pp. 144-161.

Mejdell, Gunvor. “The Use of Colloquial in Modern Egyptian Literature: A Survey.” In Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon, edited by E. Lutz and J. Retsö, 195–213., Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006.

Paniconi, Maria Elena. «Distopie nella scena letteraria egiziana contemporanea. Una lettura di Al-Tabur (La Fila) di Basma Abdel Aziz ». In Minnena. L'Egitto, l'Europa e la ricerca dopo l'assassinio di Giulio Regeni; Messina, Mesogea; 2020, pp. 133 – 164.

Pepe, Teresa. “Aḥmad Nājī’s Istikhdām al-ḥayāh (Using Life) as “Critical Dystopia”, In Stephan Guth & Teresa Pepe (ed.), Arabic Literature in a Posthuman World. Harrassowitz Verlag. 2019, pp. 179 – 191.

Wazen, Abdo. “Introduction.” In Beirut 39: New Writing from the

Arab World, edited by Samuel Shimon, xiii–xv. London: Bloomsbury, 2010, pp. XIII-XV.

Original language materials will be provided during the lessons and will be available on Studium.

Module 3 (3 CFU):

Arabic 2.0 between new media and new literary genres.

Avallone, Lucia. “Autori egiziani degli anni Duemila. Blogosfera, graphic e postmoderno: nuovi linguaggi nel panorama letterario arabo”. Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, (13), 2016, 2016, pp. 25-46, https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/1396

Høigilt, J. “Egyptian Comics and the Challenge to Patriarchal Authoritarianism”. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 49(1), 2017, pp. 111-131. doi:10.1017/S0020743816001161.

Jacquemond, Richard. “Satiric Literature and Other “Popular” Literary Genres in Egypt Today”. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (16), 2017: pp. 349–367. https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.4756

Pepe, Teresa. “Mixed Arabic as a Subversive Literary Style (2005-2011)”. In: Sociolinguistics, Translation and Society in the Middle East, eds. Nora Eggen and Rana Issa, Oslo: Novus Forlag, pp. 363-394., In Nora Sunniva Eggen & Rana Issa (ed.), Philologists in the World: A Festschrift in Honour of Gunvor Mejdell. Novus Forlag. 2017. pp. 363 – 394

Original language materials will be provided during the lessons and will be available on Studium.

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.