Approaches to teaching the works of Naguib Mahfouz
Published:
2012
Publisher:
Modern Language Association of America, New York
Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world's best-known writer and the single most important chronicler and analyst of twentieth-century Egypt. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, and since then his work has been increasingly studied in North...
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Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world's best-known writer and the single most important chronicler and analyst of twentieth-century Egypt. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, and since then his work has been increasingly studied in North American university classrooms. This first volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature to focus on an Arab author or Arabic literature provides an introduction to Mahfouz. In part 1, "Materials," the editors discuss Mahfouz's background, influence, and critical reception. In part 2, "Approaches," the volume's contributors offer information, resources, and insights for teaching his work. Topics covered include the Arabian Nights tradition in Mahfouz's work, the challenge of teaching Mahfouz in English translation, the Nasserite intellectual in The Beggar, the image of Alexandria in Miramar, the bitterness of British occupation in Midaq Alley, and the quest of Sufism in "Zaabalawi
Waïl S. Hassan: Materials. Early years ; Novels and short stories ; Memoirs, interviews, and articles ; Mahfouz and cinema ; Mahfouz in translation ; Resources for teachers ; Approaches. Introduction ; Contexts ; Teaching a seminar on Mahfouz
Michelle Hartman: Teaching Mahfouz as world literature
Terri DeYoung: Mahfouz's novels and the nation
Nouri Gana: Enduring left melancholia: Mahfouz's The beggar and the Nasserite intellectual
Shaden M. Tageldin: Mahfouz's posts
Justin St. Clair: Mahfouz and The Arabian nights tradition
Barbara Harlow: Teaching specific texts. Hamida's options: Egyptian futures versus British interests in Mahfouz's Midaq Alley
Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward: Teaching Mahfouz: style in translation
Nabil Matar: Christ and the Abrahamic legacy in Children of the alley
Roger Allen: Teaching Mahfouz's "Zaabalawi"
Michael Beard: Homage to Ibn alFarid: nostalgia in "Zaabalawi"
Elliott Colla: Miramar and postcolonial melancholia
Hala Halim.: Miramar: a pension at the intersection of competing discourses