Mary N Layoun

Biographic Data

ID3864603
NAMEMary N Layoun
GIVEN NAMESMary N
FAMILY NAMELayoun
SIGNATURELAYOUN M N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • The Postcolonial

    Mary N LayounCHAPTEROxford Research Encyclopedia of…2019

    First used in post–World War II historical accounts as a designation for the period that followed the independence of successful anti-colonial struggles in Asia and Africa, the origins of the postcolonial as a category of thought are multiple and diversely located: in anti-colonial movements such as Pan-Africanism and the Négritude movement and thinkers and writers including Amilcar Cabral, Aimé Césaire, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkru…

  • To Relearn the Sense of the World

    Mary N LayounARTICLEboundary 22019References: 9

    To Relearn the Sense of the World’: A Call to Arms” rereads the work of Masao Miyoshi and the legacy of that work in attending to his imperative to “relearn the sense of the world” (or worlds) in which we reside and cohabit with others. The role in that relearning of higher education and of the humanities, as well as of social and of poetic practices, locally and internationally, is traced as suggested by and beyond Miyoshi’s writings

  • J oe S acco . Footnotes in Gaza

    Open AccessMary N LayounARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    “And I swear I’ll wrench nothing but the facts from our next batch of eyewitnesses, frail and imperfect as they might be” (119). This fraught promise from the narrator of Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza signals one of the central contradictions of this comic and, in fact, of eyewitness testimony to a historical event. From the foreword of Footnotes in Gaza to the four appendixes and bibliography that conclude its 432 pages, the visual and verbal to…

  • Travels of a Genre

    Mary N LayounBOOKTravels of a Genre2014

  • Endings and Beginnings

    Mary N LayounARTICLENew Literary History2009Cited by: 1

    Endings and Beginnings:Reimagining the Tasks and Spaces of Comparison Mary N. Layoun (bio) ́Ωμως την μαστοριά σου όληνα τη θέμε τώρα.Σε ξένη γλώσσα η λύπη μας κ' η αγάπη μας περνούν.Το αιγυπτιακό σου αίσθημα χύσε στην ξένη γλώσσα. Κ. Π. Καβάφης, "Για τον Aμμόνη, που πέθανε 29 ετών, στα 610" [But we need all of your craftsmanship now.Into a foreign language our sorrow and our love move.Pour your Egyptian sensibility into a foreign language. C. P. …

  • Telling Stories in Palestine

    Open AccessMary N LayounCHAPTERPalestine, Israel, and the…2005

  • Wedded to the Land?

    Open AccessMary N LayounBOOKWedded to the Land?2001

  • Wedded to the Land

    Fredric Jameson, Mary N Layoun et al.BOOKWedded to the Land?2001Cited by: 11

  • Behind the Intifada

    Mary N LayounARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…1994

  • Travels of a Genre

    Saree Makdisi, Saree S Makdisi et al.ARTICLEMiddle East Report1992

  • Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan

    Mary N Layoun, Alan Wolfe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1992

  • Resistance Literature

    Mary N Layoun, Mary Layoun et al.ARTICLEMiddle East Report1989

  • Fictional Formations and Deformations of National Culture

    Mary N LayounARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1988Cited by: 1

    Research Article| January 01 1988 Fictional Formations and Deformations of National Culture Mary N. Layoun Mary N. Layoun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (1): 53–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-1-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary N. Layoun; Fictional Formations and Deformations of National Culture. South At…