Alif 40

Mapping New Directions in the Humanities

Ferial Ghazoul, Walid El Hamamsy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

450 Seiten

2021
American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-1-61797-966-8 (ISBN)

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This issue of Alif is dedicated to efforts to redefine and reorient the humanities in light of global institutional and intellectual realities. “Mapping” is construed in several ways: the more literal meaning of geographical “reorientation” in the sense of efforts to redefine the relationship between global north and south, and between Western and non-Western intellectual traditions. It also refers to the remapping of the modern university by interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in the humanities that brings it to new shores such as the digital humanities and medical humanities. Essays map out ways for the humanities to better engage the extra-academic pressures shaping the modern university as it remains true to its own best long-standing goals and values.

Ferial Ghazoul is an Iraqi scholar, critic, and translator. She is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo and editor of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. She has translated modern Arabic poetry and fiction to English and critical theory from English and French to Arabic. Walid El Hamamsy is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of English, Cairo University. He is the co-editor of Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook.

Contents
English Section
Editorial
Diversity Mapping in Classical Studies: David Konstan

A Decolonial Turn in the Humanities: Claire Gallien

The Cultural Turn in the Study of Arabic Literature: Antonio Pacifico

Redirecting Postcolonial Theory: Arab-Islamic Reason, Deconstructionism, and the Possibility of Multiple Critique: Youssef Yacoubi

Re-Orienting Modernism: Mapping East-East Exchanges between Arabic and Persian Poetry: Levi Thompson

From Cultural Translation to Untranslatability: Theorizing Translation outside Translation Studies: Brian James Baer

Towards Holistic Medical Humanities: Nadia Hashish

New Directions in Disability Narratives: Cyborgs and Redefining Disability in Young Adult Literature: Yasmine Sweed

English Abstracts of Articles

English Notes on Contributors

Arabic Section
Editorial
Modern Paths in Philosophical Studies: Abdesslam Benabdelali

Arab Feminism: Positions and Practices: Abouelnaga Shereen

From Autobiography to Writing-Life: Trajectories and Intersections across the Humanities and Social Sciences: Hala Kamal

Postcolonialism and Arabic Literature: Rerouting or Re-Rooting: Samia Al Hodathy

Educational Linguistics and the Problem of Language: Science and Mathematics Education in the Arab World: Tamer Amin

“Contemporary” American Poetry American: Reflections: Hassan Hilmy

Arabic Literature and Digital Technology: Hossam Nayel

Game Theory and Literary Analysis: Horizons and Limitations: Naglaa Saad Hassan

Arabic Abstracts of Articles

Arabic Notes on Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61797-966-X / 161797966X
ISBN-13	978-1-61797-966-8 / 9781617979668
Zustand	Neuware