ARABIC CULTURE AND LITERATURE 2

Through the previous knoledge students will be ables to read and understand original texts of contemporary literature. Thanks to the methodolgies applied and reused by themselves, the students will present written or oral presentation of some arguments analyzing arabic novels, short stories or plays. They will be enable to communicate and recognize the representation of the selfness and the main discourse produced by the ideological thought throughout the XIX and XX centuries in Arabic literature.

The course is divided into: lectures, lessons for comparison and reading of texts in Arabic, group analysis and oral reports in the class, individual analysis and written reports.

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. - A. Nicosia, Il romanzo arabo al cinema, Carocci, Roma, 2015 (per una parte degli studenti);
4. - S. Sibilio, "Nakba. La memoria letteraria della catastrofe palestinese", Edizioni Q, 2013 (per una parte degli studenti);
5. - M. Ruocco, "Storia del teatro arabo", Carocci, 2010 (per una parte degli studenti);
6. - T. Husein, "Adib. Storia di un letterato", cura e traduzione di M.E. Paniconi, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2017 (parti selezionate dal docente), (http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/books/978-88-6969-178-2/978-88-6969-178-2_PblnTqO.pdf);
7. - M. Avino, I. Camera D'Afflitto, A. Salem, "Antologia della letteratura araba contemporanea", Carocci, 2015 (brani scelti dal docente);
8. - More texts, articles and readings will be provided during the lectures
9. - Students who can't attend the the lectures must contact the professor in order to arrange a specific program.