Alif 41
Alif 41 (2021): Literature, History, and Historiography
English and French Section:
- Anne C. Vila: Shaking Up the Enlightenment: Jansenist Convulsionnaires and Their Witnesses in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Paris
- Rebecca Ruth Gould: The Antiquarian Imagination in Multilingual Daghestan
- Balthazar I. Beckett: “Like a Butterfly on a Pin”: Witnessing Genealogies of Whiteness in James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man”
- Madonna Kalousian: Between Invertible and Invertebrate Histories: The Evolution of Rachid Boudjedra’s Snail-Man
- Ziad Dallal: Chronicles of the Mundane and the Eternal Present: Literary Montage in Dhāt and Kāna ghadan
- Wen-chi Li: Transgressing Hegemonic Discourses: Yang Mu, the Poet-Historian, and His Minor Narratives
- Isabelle Hesse: Counterfactual Israels: Zionism, Nation-Building, and Indigeneity in Contemporary Jewish Writing
- Daniel Rivet: La littérature élargissant la connaissance de l’histoire
- Francesca Orsini and Peter Kornicki: East and South Asian Perspectives on History, Languages, and Literatures: A Conversation
Arabic Section:
- Céza Kassem: History and the Novel: Introduction and Analytical Overview
- Tarif Khalidi: Writing Pre-Modern Arab History: Introductory Critical Approach
- Magdi Guirguis: Arab Traditions in the Writing of Coptic History
- Itzea Goikolea-Amiano: Al-Andalus in Spanish-Ruled Morocco: Politics of Prestige and Circularity of History in Al-Mu‘tamid and Ketama
- Ahmed F. Khaleel: World War II in the Poetry of Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri
- Abdullah Ibrahim: Narrative Dreams and History
- Karim Elsaiad: Being-towards-Apocalypse: An Ontological-Historical Analysis of Maṭar’s Poetry
- Mohamed Birairi: Intertextuality between Sunset Oasis and Cairo Swan Song: A Reading of Two Egyptian Colonial Periods
- Azza Madian: Musical Orientalism: Two Studies from the early 1800s between Contemporary Performance Practices and Early Manuscripts