Maya I Kesrouany
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya I Kesrouany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya I |
| FAMILY NAME | Kesrouany |
| SIGNATURE | KESROUANY M I |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between writer and militant
Critical Hope
This article explores the theory and practice of critique in the works of the Lebanese Communist intellectual Husayn Muruwwa (1910–1987) and his grandson Rabih Mroué (b. 1967). Husayn Muruwwa, one of the most important Arab intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century, reinvented literary criticism and cultural critique in the 1950s and '60s. His grandson, one of the most prominent Arab visual artists, has been redefining the critica…
Culture outside of the state
This article analyses Egyptian definitions of thaqāfa or “culture” from 1922 to 1954 by focusing on three intellectuals: Salama Musa (1887–1958), Taha Husayn (1889–1973), and Ramsis Yunan (1913–1966). It considers how their definitions complicated the European integration of the term into the Arabic language, and how they contrasted with other relevant terms such as tarbiya (moral education) and taʿlīm (institutional instruction). Examining the c…
Theatre of the Probable
Since the 1951 establishment of the Syrian Writer’s Collective and the consequent consolidation of the doctrine of socialist realism, modern Syrian literature has been defining its own parameters as an autonomous entity that nonetheless is committed to social and political critique. After 1967, the inward turn of Syrian intellectuals resulted in a more militant equation of the literary field with doctrinal socialist realism. But there was a count…
City of Beginnings
Robyn Creswell's City of Beginnings takes its title seriously: it explores the novel poetics of a 1950s group of poets in Beirut—the title's metaphoric city—known for their magazine Shiʿr [Poetry]. The group represents one of “the deepest fault lines in the cultural Cold War,” which Creswell attributes to “the issue of literary autonomy” (8). The founding poets Adonis, Yusuf al-Khal, and Unsi al-Hajj adopted literary autonomy from late modernist …
Prophetic Translation
City of Beginnings
Robyn Creswell's City of Beginnings takes its title seriously: it explores the novel poetics of a 1950s group of poets in Beirut—the title's metaphoric city—known for their magazine Shiʿr [Poetry]. The group represents one of “the deepest fault lines in the cultural Cold War,” which Creswell attributes to “the issue of literary autonomy” (8). The founding poets Adonis, Yusuf al-Khal, and Unsi al-Hajj adopted literary autonomy from late modernist …
Prophetic Translation
City of Beginnings
Robyn Creswell's City of Beginnings takes its title seriously: it explores the novel poetics of a 1950s group of poets in Beirut—the title's metaphoric city—known for their magazine Shiʿr [Poetry]. The group represents one of “the deepest fault lines in the cultural Cold War,” which Creswell attributes to “the issue of literary autonomy” (8). The founding poets Adonis, Yusuf al-Khal, and Unsi al-Hajj adopted literary autonomy from late modernist …
Culture outside of the state
This article analyses Egyptian definitions of thaqāfa or “culture” from 1922 to 1954 by focusing on three intellectuals: Salama Musa (1887–1958), Taha Husayn (1889–1973), and Ramsis Yunan (1913–1966). It considers how their definitions complicated the European integration of the term into the Arabic language, and how they contrasted with other relevant terms such as tarbiya (moral education) and taʿlīm (institutional instruction). Examining the c…
Theatre of the Probable
Since the 1951 establishment of the Syrian Writer’s Collective and the consequent consolidation of the doctrine of socialist realism, modern Syrian literature has been defining its own parameters as an autonomous entity that nonetheless is committed to social and political critique. After 1967, the inward turn of Syrian intellectuals resulted in a more militant equation of the literary field with doctrinal socialist realism. But there was a count…
Critical Hope
This article explores the theory and practice of critique in the works of the Lebanese Communist intellectual Husayn Muruwwa (1910–1987) and his grandson Rabih Mroué (b. 1967). Husayn Muruwwa, one of the most important Arab intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century, reinvented literary criticism and cultural critique in the 1950s and '60s. His grandson, one of the most prominent Arab visual artists, has been redefining the critica…
Between writer and militant
Art (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)