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- Bakker, Barbara, 1966-, et al.
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Climate change and ecological literacy in Ghassān Shibārū’s climate fiction novel "2022"
- 2023
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In: Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies. - 0806-198X. ; 23:1, s. 17-43
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Climate change has been attracting increasing attention as one of the most significant consequences of the anthropogenic global warming and fictional narratives have increasingly been involved in engaging human imagination on the topic of climate change. Climate fiction, or cli-fi, is the umbrella term that designates fiction with climate change as its main theme. Climate fiction has been primarily published in English so far and narratives specifically problematising anthropogenic climate change are still quite rare in the Arabic literary landscape. In this regard, the novel 2022 by the Lebanese author Ghassān Shibārū constitutes an interesting case, given that it is authored in Arabic but displays several of the characteristics typical of the cli-fi genre. This paper aims at providing an analysis of Shibārū’s novel 2022 as representative of Arabic climate fiction. The main features of the climate fiction genre and its relationship to the scholarship of ecocriticism are first outlined. An overview of the environment as a theme in Arabic literature and Arabic literary studies then follows. The paper subsequently presents the concept of ecological literacy, which constitutes the theoretical framework for the analysis of the characters in the novel. After a synopsis of the plot, the characters are analysed and discussed and the novel itself is examined as instance of climate fiction as intended by the Anglophone definition of the genre. The authors argue that the purpose of the novel is didactic, since, rather than narrating a fictional story, the novel exploits a fictional story in order to spread awareness of global warming and climate change.
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- Bakker, Barbara, 1966-
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Egyptian Dystopias of the 21st Century : A new literary trend?
- 2021
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In: Journal of Arabic and Islamic studies. - : University of Oslo Library. - 0806-198X. ; 21, s. 79-94
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- During the first two decades of the 21st century an increasing amount of narratives termed as Arabic dystopian fiction appeared on the Arabic literary scene, with a greater part authored by Egyptian writers. However, what characterises/marks a work as a dystopia? This paper investigates the dystopian nature of a selection of Egyptian literary works within the frame of the dystopian narrative tradition. The article begins by introducing the features of the traditional literary dystopias as they will be used in the analysis. It then gives a brief overview of the development of the genre in the Arabic literature. The discussion that follows highlights common elements and identifies specific themes in six Egyptian novels selected for the analysis, thereby highlighting differences and similarities between them and the traditional Western dystopias. The article calls for a categorisation of Arabic dystopian narrative that takes into consideration social, political, historical and cultural factors specific for the Arabic in general, and Egyptian in particular, literary field.
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- Lindbekk, Monika
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Conversions : ...in Egypt
- 2021
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In: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. - : University of Oslo Library. - 0806-198X. ; 21:3
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- An array of Egyptian lifeworlds in 2016.
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- Lindbekk, Monika, et al.
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Court Trials : ...in Egypt
- 2021
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In: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. - : University of Oslo Library. - 0806-198X. ; 21:3
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- An array of Egyptian lifeworlds in 2016.
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