ARABIC CULTURE AND LITERATURE 2

The course focus on the socio-cultural and literary situation of some Arab countries (Egypt, Palestine), on the formation a of the Arab novel Canon. The analysis and the birth of the idea of Nation and his literary representation, also reading and analysing of original parts of Arabic modern novels and short stories.

1. - Toelle H. e Zakaria K., Alla scoperta della letteratura araba, Argo, Lecce, 2010;
2. - Lorenzo Casini, Maria Elena Paniconi e Lucia Sorbera, Modernità arabe. Nazione, narrazione e nuovi soggetti nel romanzo egiziano, Mesogea, Messina, 2013
3. - Aldo Nicosia, Il romanzo arabo al cinema, Carocci, Roma, 2014
4. - Hafez Sabry, "The Egyptian Novel in the sixties" in Critical Perspectives on Modern Arabic Literature, ed. I. J. Boullata, (New York, Three Continents Press, 1980), pp. 171-90
5. Hilary Kilpatrick, "The Arabic novel — a single tradition?" in Journal of Arabic Literature, 5 (1974), pp. 93-107
6. Hilary Kilpatrick, "Tradition and Innovation in the Fiction of Ghassan Kanafani," Journal of Arabic Literature, 7 (1976), pp. 53-54
7. Isabella Camera d'Afflitto, "Narrativa palestinesecontemporanea. Note su alcuni autori", in Quaderni di Studi arabi, 1 (1983), p.