Jurji Zaydan: Avatar of the Modern Revitalization and Worlding of Arabic Literature

Rastegar, Kamran

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“…Они линейно повествуют об исторических событиях и персонах, отстоящих от нас на поколения, в них важен сюжет, повороты событий, обязательна любовная линия, историческим лицам придаются определенные стереотипные черты характера, однако образы не столь глубоко разработаны, чтобы роман считался психологическим. Неслучайно творчество именно Джирджи Зейдана некоторые исследователи называют той точкой, с которой арабская литература влилась в мировую (Rastegar, 2019).…”

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The evolution of Arabic historical literature and its current trends: canons and invariants

Zarytovskaya

Al-Rahbi

2023

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Literaturoved. žurnal.

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The study is devoted to the peculiarities of the development of the Arabic historical novel, the consistent transformation and “erosion” of its canons within the framework of the literary trends of the 20th and 21st centuries. The relevance of the topic, on the one hand, is due to the fact that the historical novel has not lost its significance in Arabic national literature. The share of works of this genre is still high, they occupy the first lines in the distribution of literary prizes. On the other hand, against the background of the general process of globalization, it is interesting to trace the trajectory of the development of the genre in the so-called “lagging” literature, to which many researchers rank Arabic literature. Some works of the genre fell into the focus of both Arabic, Western, as well as domestic orientalist-literary critics and were subjected to deep comprehensive consideration. Today, however, the novels of recent decades also require analysis. The purpose of the study was not just to identify the works of Arab authors that have received wide recognition in recent years, but to fit them into the paradigm of the development of the historical genre and thereby determine its direction in the near future. To do this, the authors tried to compare classical historical novels with modern ones, characterizing their heroes, describing the periods in the history of the Arab world that Arab authors addressed and continue to address within the genre, determining the degree of epic, historical authenticity, etc., in modern examples of the genre. It was found out, that classical heroes with a standard set of heroic qualities that influence the course of history are replaced by thinkers, scientists, dervishes, ordinary observers, and critical epochs and specific historical events are replaced by troubles periods - before or after a catastrophe, major transformations. Conclusions were drawn about the historicity of Arabic literature back in the pre-Islamic era, the long-term preservation of the canons of the Early Middle Ages in the genre, the sharp transformation of the genre and the refusal from the canons under the influence of postmodernism that penetration into Arabic soil in the mid 1960s coincided with the military and social upheavals of the history of Arabs. The direction of the genre, which is pronounced today towards ethnoliterature, is emphasized.

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The evolution of Arabic historical literature and its current trends: canons and invariants

Zarytovskaya

Al-Rahbi

2023

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Literaturoved. žurnal.

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The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form

Orsini¹,

Srivastava²,

Zecchini³

2022

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This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War. The essays in this collection focus on locations as diverse as Morocco, Tunisia, South Asia, China, Spain, and Italy, and on texts in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. In doing so, they highlight the combination of local debates and struggles, and internationalist networks and aspirations that found expression in essays, novels, travelogues, translations, reviews, reportages and other literary forms. With its comparative study of print cultures with a focus on decolonization and the Cold War, the volume makes a major contribution both to studies of postcolonial literary and print cultures, and to cultural Cold War studies in multilingual and non-Western contexts, and will be of interest to historians and literary scholars alike.

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1. The Traveller as Internationalist

Chaudhuri¹

2022

The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form

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In order to make the volume readable, we have kept diacritical marks to a minimum, using them only for book and journal titles and direct quotations. For Devanagari, we have mostly followed the transliteration used by R. S. McGregor, The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993), with the exception that we have transliterated soft c (च) and its aspirate ch (छ) with ch and chh, and ś (श) and ṣ (ष) with sh, and have simplified the transcription of final nasalised vowels (using n instead of ṁ). For Arabic, we have followed the guidelines of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

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Jurji Zaydan: Avatar of the Modern Revitalization and Worlding of Arabic Literature

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

The evolution of Arabic historical literature and its current trends: canons and invariants

The evolution of Arabic historical literature and its current trends: canons and invariants

The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form

1. The Traveller as Internationalist

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