• 20 Environmental Literature Recommendations: Books That Celebrate Human Life, Plants, and Nature, by Emiley White

    Updated: 2025-03-10 20:17:00
    : , , , Skip to main content Donate Main menu Magazine Current Issue Book Reviews Previous Issues Submission Guidelines Authors Index Translator Index WLT Weekly Subscribe Subscription Options Subscriber Services Get a Free 30-Day Trial Programs Neustadt Prize NSK Neustadt Prize OU Student Opportunities Puterbaugh Festival WLT Translation Prize About Accolades Awards Prizes Contact History Masthead Mission Staff WLT†s 95th Anniversary Professional Opportunities Donate Home Blog Lit Lists Lit Lists 20 Environmental Literature Recommendations : Books That Celebrate Human Life , Plants , and Nature March 11, 2025 by Emiley White This page is available to subscribers . Click here to sign in or get access For those fascinated by bees , birdsong , and remembering biodiversity . For the

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  • Student Translation Prize Winners Announced at the University of Oklahoma, by The Editors of WLT

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    , Skip to main content Donate Main menu Magazine Current Issue Book Reviews Previous Issues Submission Guidelines Authors Index Translator Index WLT Weekly Subscribe Subscription Options Subscriber Services Get a Free 30-Day Trial Programs Neustadt Prize NSK Neustadt Prize OU Student Opportunities Puterbaugh Festival WLT Translation Prize About Accolades Awards Prizes Contact History Masthead Mission Staff WLT†s 95th Anniversary Professional Opportunities Donate Home Blog News and Events News and Events Student Translation Prize Winners Announced at the University of Oklahoma March 4, 2024 by The Editors of WLT This page is available to subscribers . Click here to sign in or get access Lucy Coleman left and Lala Mammadova World Literature Today WLT is pleased to announce the winners of

  • Prison Sentences: Spaces of Liberation in Arab Prison Writing

    Updated: 2025-01-20 09:21:19
    : Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries The Press PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 25 2023 Iss . 1 Prison Sentences : Spaces of Liberation in Arab Prison Writing Authors Joseph Farag University of Minnesota Follow Abstract Spatial and temporal motifs predominate throughout the extensive corpus of Arabic prison writing . However , far from establishing the prison as an exceptional space , and periods of imprisonment as “time outside time,” this paper argues that modern Arabic prison literature tends instead to blur the distinction between “inside” and “outside” prison space and time . In place of a rigid spatial demarcation , dramatically exemplified by images of

  • The Networks of Prison Narrative: Imagining Sociality and Making Narrative in Assad’s Syria

    Updated: 2025-01-20 09:20:38
    : Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries The Press PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 25 2023 Iss . 1 The Networks of Prison Narrative : Imagining Sociality and Making Narrative in Assad†s Syria Authors Anne-Marie McManus Forum Transregionale Studien Follow Abstract This article argues for a new reading of collectivity – in both narrative voice and scenes of shared experience – in works of Syrian prison literature . Although these texts were published and are interpreted as the products of single author figures , the wider narrative field from which they emerge is shaped by numerous collective practices , from the oral and written to the digital . Breaking disciplinary

  • From Prison to the World: A Comparative Reading of Naji’s Hirz Mikamkim (Rotten Evidence, 2020) and Abd el-Fattah’s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (2021)

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    : Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries The Press PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 25 2023 Iss . 1 From Prison to the World : A Comparative Reading of Naji†s Hirz Mikamkim Rotten Evidence , 2020 and Abd el-Fattah†s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated 2021 Authors Teresa Pepe University of Oslo Follow Abstract This article analyses Ahmed Naji†s Hirz Mikamkim Rotten Evidence and Alaa Abd el-Fattah†s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated through the lens of ‘prison literature†that is “literary works produced in , about , or through the experience of political detention” Taleghani 13 Comparing them to previous forms of prison literature from Egypt , it shows that both books

  • Khairy Shalaby’s Novel The City of the Enslaved: Egyptian Prison Literature with a Russian Twist

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    Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries The Press PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 25 2023 Iss . 1 Khairy Shalaby†s Novel The City of the Enslaved Egyptian Prison Literature with a Russian Twist Authors Sarali Gintsburg University of Navarra Follow Abstract Although the interconnectedness of Russian and Arabic literatures has been demonstrated by Soviet Russian and , to a limited extent , Western Arabists , this research remains limited to a few names . However , the role that the Russian Soviet literary tradition had in shaping contemporary genres of Arabic literature is complex and diverse . This is , for instance , the case with prison literature—Russian Soviet

  • Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing from Captivity

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    : , Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries The Press PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 25 2023 Iss . 1 Palestinian Prisoners : Smuggling Freedom , Writing from Captivity Authors Basil Farraj Birzeit University Follow Abstract This article discusses writings by Palestinian political prisoners and the broader body of prison literature situating them as practices of ‘smuggling freedom†from Israel†s carceral regime , shedding light onto their political and social meaning . Through discussing writings by prisoners , the article points to a long history through which Palestinian prisoners confronted the Israeli regime†s torture and violent practices , and its broader

  • New Approaches to MENA Prison Literatures After 2011

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