Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
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Ethnosemantic foundations of number names in a cross-border toposystem
One of the urgent problems of the cross-border toponymic system is the ethnosemantic characteristics of the toponyms of the border regions of Kazakhstan with Russia. This sphere affects the development of important economic and political vectors and,...
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Linguacultural concept of invective lexicon on the basis of Chinese, Russian, and English
The study aims to determine the cultural peculiarities of the functioning of invective as a means of cultural identification on the example of three languages – English, Chinese, and Russian. To analyse the linguistic and cultural dominants, an onlin...
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Images of family roles and authority in literature: Kyrgyz cultural-historical aspects
The study aims to analyse the reflection of such key family roles as motherhood, fatherhood, and authority in the works of Kyrgyz literature of different eras, with a focus on the traditional and contemporary aspects. The methodology included compara...
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Kyrgyz diaspora literature in China and Canada Identity, memory, and cultural adaptation
The study aims to compare the literary traditions of China, Canada, Kyrgyzstan with a focus on the themes that unite authors from different cultures, to study their impact on the formation of cultural memory in the context of globalisation. The study...
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Contemporary trends in Central Asian literature: Preserving traditions and adapting to globalisation
The purpose of this study is to analyse the ways of integrating epic and folklore into modern literature to transmit the values of the past, address contemporary issues, and strengthen cultural continuity. The research methodology was based on a comp...
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The distinctiveness of the Kazakh national character in English literary translations
The study aims to analyse the peculiarities of Kazakh national identity in English translation in fiction. The following methods were used: descriptive, deductive, and comparative. The translation of fiction serves as a key medium in the cultural dia...
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When Maḥfūẓ wrote about the 1967 defeat: (Re)reading Taḥt al-miẓalla (1969) and al-Ḥubb taḥt al-maṭar (1973, 2023)
The 1967 defeat remains one of the most dreadful moments in modern Arab history. Rapid and violent, it shook the foundations of the political order and dismantled the myth of Nasser and his anti-colonial project. This crisis had lasting consequences...
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Prison nostalgia and the collapse of emancipatory futures: Women‘s writings from the Egyptian prison of al-Qanāṭir al-Ḫayriyya
During the 1960s and 1970s, many intellectuals and ordinary citizens in Egypt were imprisoned and detained for political reasons. Many of them wrote about their experiences, creating a corpus of prison memoirs known by the Arabic name of adab al-suğū...
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Poetics of commitment: Raḍwā ʿĀšūr reads Ġassān Kanafānī’s fiction in al-Ṭarīq ilā al-ḫayma al-uḫrā (‘The way to the other tent,’ 1981) and al-Ṭanṭūriyya (‘The woman from Tantoura,’ 2010)
This article aims discusses how Raḍwā ʿĀšūr (1946-2014), an Egyptian academic, novelist and activist, critically analyzed and subsequently intertextually engaged with the fiction of Palestinian author Ġassān Kanafānī in two works: the essay al-...
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The politics of imagining the West in the Egyptian novel: Resignifications of the European woman trope from the 1960s to the Arab Spring
This article is a study in the poetics and politics of imagining the West in modern Arabic literature. It focuses on the deployment of the European woman trope in four Egyptian novels published between 1959 and 2012 and describes the re-enactment and...
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Understanding political violence in culture: Critical reflections on trauma theory and contemporary Arabic literature
This article deals with the question of adequate approaches to the study of trauma representations in contemporary Arabic literature. After a critique and further development of trauma theories and concepts that are still frequently used today...
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Experimenting with Ṭabaqāt and Muʿğam: A history of modern Egypt through the biographies of ordinary citizens in Ḥadīṯ al-ṣabāḥ wa-l-masāʾ by Nağīb Maḥfūẓ
Inspired by the search for an authentic literature, several Arab writers have experimented with their literary tradition after the cultural turn that followed 1967. Among them, the Egyptian novelist Nağīb Maḥfūẓ (1911-2006), who, determined to find a...
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Telling the real: Literary reportage in contemporary Arabic literature
The objective of this paper is to delineate the recent evolution and innovations of literary reportage in contemporary Arabic literature, a genre of considerable significance for a number of reasons, primarily due to its capacity to engender a novel...
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Tensions of discourse in Muḏakkirāt miṯliyya by Fāṭima al-Zahrā’ Amzkār: A sensational example of gendered representation through fictional autobiography
Fāṭima al-Zahrā’ Amzkār’s debut novel, Muḏakkirāt miṯliyya (‘Memoirs of a Lesbian,’ 2022), caused a scandal in Morocco when it was banned from Rabat’s 2022 International Book Fair. This article first examines the expectations generated by the novel’s...
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Comment écrire la dévastation ? Documenter, filtrer et réélaborer le réel dans Bawwābāt arḍ al-ʻadam et al-Maššā’a de Samar Yazbik
The upheavals that have shaken Syria since 2011 have profoundly impacted the evolution of the literary sphere. This is particularly evident when examining the transformation of the relationship between fiction and reality in the novelistic production...
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