• Lit Hub Daily: February 28, 2025

    Updated: 2025-02-28 11:30:20
    “There is a pleasure in being reminded that we don’t yet know all there is to know about the universe.” Karen Thompson Walker on the real (and unreal) in fiction. | Lit Hub Craft This week on The Lit Hub Podcast: Dan Sheehan chats with Omar El Akkad, Drew Broussard and Calvin Kasulke debate the […]

  • Tip from a reader: Metalabel for collaborations

    Updated: 2025-02-26 17:00:00
    The platform enables Substack writers who want to collaborate on creating themed collected writings in a more polished print or ebook form.

  • Links of Interest: February 26, 2025

    Updated: 2025-02-26 17:00:00
    The latest in traditional publishing, bookselling, marketing & promotion, culture & politics, and AI.

  • 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)

    Updated: 2025-01-20 09:20:11
    : 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

  • Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing from Captivity

    Updated: 2025-01-20 09:19:00
    : , 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

    Updated: 2025-01-20 09:18:45

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