Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 34

Andrew N. Rubin is scholar in residence at Georgetown University. He is the author of Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War and the co-editor of Adorno: A Critical Reader and The Edward Said Reader. He has published on the subject of twentieth century culture in magazines and journals including The South Atlantic Quarterly, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, The Journal of Palestine Studies, The Nation, The New Statesman, and Al-Ahram.

Haifa Alfaisal World Reading Strategies: Border Reading Bandarshah Brian Doherty The Center Cannot Hold: The Post-Things Fall Apart Literary Anthology Hala Ghoneim Imagined Audience and the Reception of World Literature: Reading Brooklyn Heights and Chicago Sabry Hafez World Literature After Orientalism: The Enduring Lure of the Occident Gretchen Head Confronting the Right-Thinking Bourgeoisie: Shukri, Genet, and a Poetics of Inversion Barbara Lekatsas La pense de midi: Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Camus, Cavafy, and Chahine Benjamin Ogden Quantum Criticism: A Poetics of Simultaneity for Global Literature Joseph Slaughter World Literature as Property Anouar El Younssi An Exoticized World Literature: Ben Jelloun at the Two Shores of the Mediterranean Dia Al-azzawi Plastic Art Intertwined with World Literature: An Iraqi Testimony Ziad Elmarsafy World Literature and the Worldliness of Literature Erich Auerbach The Philology of Weltliteratur Fayza Haikal The Contribution of Pharaonic Literature to World Culture Maisa Al-Khawaja The Mythical and Questioning Existence in Darwishs Jidariyya Samia Mehrez Mapping the Novel: Franco Moretti and the Re-making of Literary History Wen-chin Ouyang Intertextuality and Transformation: Collective Memory in Chinese and Arabic Historical Novels Mohammed Salama World Literature Between Center and Margin: A Reading of Postcolonial Arabic Literature Esraa El Shammari World Visions on Strange(r)ness: Wadih Saadehs Poetry as an Example