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Other Worlds and the Narrative Construction of Otherness
No full textThe papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction of fantastic, imaginary, appalling or attractive places, stories and figures. Contributions are arranged in four main sections. The first section (Other spaces, new worlds) deals with Hindi and Arabic Science Fiction. The second section (Constructing forms of otherness) analyses the narrative and psychological mechanisms that give forms to a stereotype or archetypical image of the threatening Other. The third section ((Re)shaping style(s), language(s) and discourse(s) of otherness) is centred on the idea of language as a tool to build up styles, genres and texts, and literature as an escape from disappointing history and a cross-cultural wandering space of narrative ghosts. The fourth section (Circulating fearful otherness) tests the limits and heuristic potential of a philological approach in reconstructing the wide circulation of motifs and characters from antiquity to (post-)modernity
Ra’s al-Ghūl, the enemy of ‘Alī and Batman: Upturned narratives from Arabic literature to American Comics
No full textIn one of the most important long stories of the so-called Legendary Maghāzī Literature, The Conquest of Yemen or the Expedition against Ra’s al-Ghūl, ‘Alī fights against a powerful idolatrous Yemeni tyrant called Ra’s al-Ghūl (Demon’s head). The story, attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī (13th cent.), had a great success and popularity during the Mamluk period. In times closer to us (1971), another powerful archenemy, also named Ras al-Ghul, reappears in the American DC Comics as one of the most dangerous antagonists of Batman. During the last forty years, various artists and writers have enriched the story of the supervillain Ras al-Ghul and his family, creating a sort of saga that has outstanding similarities with the Arabic one. The aim of the present paper is to analyse a number of narrative elements emerging from these narratives in order to highlight the origin and transformation of the character of Ra’s al-Ghūl
Malcolm C. Lyons, The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature. A Study of Medieval Arab Hero. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2012
No full textBellino Francesca. Malcolm C. Lyons, The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature. A Study of Medieval Arab Hero. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2012. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°30, 2016. pp. 30-31
Guinle Francis, Les stratégies narratives dans la recension damascène de Sīrat al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Baybarṣ. Damas, Ifpo, 2011
No full textBellino Francesca. Guinle Francis, Les stratégies narratives dans la recension damascène de Sīrat al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Baybarṣ. Damas, Ifpo, 2011. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°28, 2013. pp. 10-12
Bohas Georges, Saguer Abderrahim, Sinno Ahyaf (trad.), Le roman d’Alexandre à Tombouctou. Histoire du Bicornu. Le manuscrit interrompu. Traduction de Georges Bohas, Abderrahim Saguer, Ahyaf Sinno / Qiṣṣat Ḏī al-Qarnayn Ḥasaba maḫṭūṭat Maktabat Mammā Ḥaydara (Timbuktū). Arles, Actes Sud/ École normale supérieure de Lyon, Bibliothèque Mamma Haidara, 2012
No full textBellino Francesca. Bohas Georges, Saguer Abderrahim, Sinno Ahyaf (trad.), Le roman d’Alexandre à Tombouctou. Histoire du Bicornu. Le manuscrit interrompu. Traduction de Georges Bohas, Abderrahim Saguer, Ahyaf Sinno / Qiṣṣat Ḏī al-Qarnayn Ḥasaba maḫṭūṭat Maktabat Mammā Ḥaydara (Timbuktū). Arles, Actes Sud/ École normale supérieure de Lyon, Bibliothèque Mamma Haidara, 2012. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°28, 2013. pp. 137-139
Dorpmüller Sabine (ed.), Fictionalizing the Past : Historical Characters in Arabic Popular Epic. Workshop held at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 28th-29th of November 2007 in Honor of Remke Kruk. Leuven-Paris-Walpole, Peeters (« Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta », 206), 2012
No full textBellino Francesca. Dorpmüller Sabine (ed.), Fictionalizing the Past : Historical Characters in Arabic Popular Epic. Workshop held at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 28th-29th of November 2007 in Honor of Remke Kruk. Leuven-Paris-Walpole, Peeters (« Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta », 206), 2012. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°28, 2013. pp. 1-3
R. Stoneman, K. Erickson, I. Netton (eds.), The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East. Groningen, Barkhuis Publishing and Groninge, University Library. 2012 (Ancient Narrative Supplementum 15)
No full textBellino Francesca. R. Stoneman, K. Erickson, I. Netton (eds.), The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East. Groningen, Barkhuis Publishing and Groninge, University Library. 2012 (Ancient Narrative Supplementum 15). In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°30, 2016. pp. 28-29
Siraj al-Din Ibn al-Wardi and the the Kharidat al-'Aja'ib: Authority and Plagiarism in a Fifteenth Century Arabic Geographical Work
No full textThe present article examines the Ḫarīdat al-ʻajā’ib wa-farīdat al-ġarā’ib (The Pearl of Wonders and the Uniqueness of Strange Things), a fifteenth-century Arabic cosmography attributed to Sirāj al-Dīn Ibn al-Wardī (d. after 822/1419). The first part of the Ḫarīdat al-ʻajā’ib covers exclusively geographical topics. However, a longer redaction, which actually contains two further sections on early Arab history and eschatology, was prepared. As many other works of its genre, the Ḫarīdat al-ʻajā’ib is thus preserved in multiple versions and redactions as well as in various languages. The leading objective of this study is to investigate a series of philological problems that are generated by the fluid and dynamic textual transmission of this work. Therefore it will touch issues concerning the structure and the arrangement of the contents within the Ḫarīdat al-ʻajā’ib and in relation to other Arabic cosmographies, the formation of multiple versions over the time, the presence of “erratic” parts inside the work, the use of sources and the nineteenth-century method of editing the work. The article also addresses a few problems concerning Sirāj al-Dīn Ibn al-Wardī as “author” of the Ḫarīdat al-ʻajā’ib as well as some more general issues relating to “distributed” authorship and plagiarism in Arabic literature
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