Yasser Elhariry
Biographic Data
| ID | 766286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasser Elhariry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasser |
| FAMILY NAME | Elhariry |
| SIGNATURE | ELHARIRY Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean
Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet, written by Ziad Elmarsafy
Arachnotopia
Arachnid and insectile lifeforms form an apocalyptic literary cluster linking early Islam, Lautréamont, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Salah Stétié. This essay begins by reimagining dialogues and interpersonal affections between the prophet Muḥammad and his close friend Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, who were granted safe passage through the mountains of Mecca by a spider. The story highlights the central role of animal life in the Qurʾān, which reads like a bestia…
The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
Hoda El Shakry’s The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb represents an incisive intervention in the fields of Arabic and francophone studies. El Shakry opens by lambasting ‘the geopoli
Tarkos Births a Vowel
In this essay, I show how the recorded screams of French performer-poet Christophe Tarkos (1963–2004) reveal a gaping hole wherein language undoes itself, in the very instance of discovering the conditions and possibilities of its own rebirth. I take Tarkos's first recorded video performance as a point of departure for contextualizing the landscape of contemporary French poetry, then define the prelingual and postlingual in relation to each other…
The Postlingual Turn
For the birds
Between 1987 and 2001, Abdelwahab Meddeb refashioned himself as poet and poetry editor-translator. He aligned his new poetic cycle with a revisionist editorial attitude toward translation and its role in generating literary historical discourse. The turn away from prose, fiction, and the novel infuses his new work with a sense of parousia, or a second coming of poetry, wherein “une poésie antérieure” erupts and emerges out of later poetry, out of…
Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Aesthetics, and Deployments of a Sea in Crisis
Temporality
In the shark-infested waters around the semantic island of the postmodern. Kwame Anthony Appiah's colorful tableau of the terraqueous intellectual landscape that, in 1991, surrounded discussions of the postmodern inflects the open temporality that haunts his thought. His quandary concerns a seemingly innocuous prefix, a "semantic island" with no real emplacement. As he makes room for a temporally open sense of space—in its relevance for theories …
Érotisme Mysticisme Lettrisme
érotisme mysticisme lettrisme yasser elhariry (bio) Le sexe fabrique un langage négatifentre l'élévation la félicité la chutesous l'auvent une relation commence Abdelwahab Meddeb, Les 99 stations de Yale (1995 : 56) Nous les voyons mais ils ne nous voient pas Salah Stétié, « Le Noûn » (2004 : 35) C'est l'histoire de la voix de ceux qui sont partis [...]Nous écoutons alors cette voix qui vit dans une autre temporalité [...]Voix et fantômes ont cec…
Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric
In 3/4, a trembling question: Mediterranean literature
In counterpoint to debates on littérature-monde, I outline the emergence of Mediterranean literature, uniquely positioned as a concept to productively break with old frustrations over globalizing universalist tendencies, and the French/francophone divide. The modern Mediterranean selectively striates and structures a detotalitizing literature whose self-consciousness creatively prolongs the composite genealogies and trajectories of preand early m…
Translating Translating Tengour
Translation studies frequently interrogate the politics and practice of single acts of translation. But what happens when the original text already takes the risk of translation? This essay examines the stakes of translations of translations, within the trilingual context of Arabic, French and English. It argues for the central case of Habib Tengour, whose chapbook Césure (2006) presents an innovative translational rewriting of classical Arabic l…
Alinguistic (Abdelfattah Kilito)
Secrecy, the unspeakable, apocrypha, indecipherability, and silence are at the heart of linguistic theories and reflections on reading and writing formulated by an entire generation of continental philosophers and contemporary French and francophone writers. Since the 1980s, Abdelfattah Kilito's thought has persistently probed the intersections between the meaning of literature –the idea of literature as embroiled with the limits and thresholds o…
The Postlingual Turn
Tarkos Births a Vowel
In this essay, I show how the recorded screams of French performer-poet Christophe Tarkos (1963–2004) reveal a gaping hole wherein language undoes itself, in the very instance of discovering the conditions and possibilities of its own rebirth. I take Tarkos's first recorded video performance as a point of departure for contextualizing the landscape of contemporary French poetry, then define the prelingual and postlingual in relation to each other…
Alinguistic (Abdelfattah Kilito)
Secrecy, the unspeakable, apocrypha, indecipherability, and silence are at the heart of linguistic theories and reflections on reading and writing formulated by an entire generation of continental philosophers and contemporary French and francophone writers. Since the 1980s, Abdelfattah Kilito's thought has persistently probed the intersections between the meaning of literature –the idea of literature as embroiled with the limits and thresholds o…
Translating Translating Tengour
Translation studies frequently interrogate the politics and practice of single acts of translation. But what happens when the original text already takes the risk of translation? This essay examines the stakes of translations of translations, within the trilingual context of Arabic, French and English. It argues for the central case of Habib Tengour, whose chapbook Césure (2006) presents an innovative translational rewriting of classical Arabic l…
Érotisme Mysticisme Lettrisme
érotisme mysticisme lettrisme yasser elhariry (bio) Le sexe fabrique un langage négatifentre l'élévation la félicité la chutesous l'auvent une relation commence Abdelwahab Meddeb, Les 99 stations de Yale (1995 : 56) Nous les voyons mais ils ne nous voient pas Salah Stétié, « Le Noûn » (2004 : 35) C'est l'histoire de la voix de ceux qui sont partis [...]Nous écoutons alors cette voix qui vit dans une autre temporalité [...]Voix et fantômes ont cec…
Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric
In 3/4, a trembling question: Mediterranean literature
In counterpoint to debates on littérature-monde, I outline the emergence of Mediterranean literature, uniquely positioned as a concept to productively break with old frustrations over globalizing universalist tendencies, and the French/francophone divide. The modern Mediterranean selectively striates and structures a detotalitizing literature whose self-consciousness creatively prolongs the composite genealogies and trajectories of preand early m…
Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Aesthetics, and Deployments of a Sea in Crisis
Temporality
In the shark-infested waters around the semantic island of the postmodern. Kwame Anthony Appiah's colorful tableau of the terraqueous intellectual landscape that, in 1991, surrounded discussions of the postmodern inflects the open temporality that haunts his thought. His quandary concerns a seemingly innocuous prefix, a "semantic island" with no real emplacement. As he makes room for a temporally open sense of space—in its relevance for theories …
For the birds
Between 1987 and 2001, Abdelwahab Meddeb refashioned himself as poet and poetry editor-translator. He aligned his new poetic cycle with a revisionist editorial attitude toward translation and its role in generating literary historical discourse. The turn away from prose, fiction, and the novel infuses his new work with a sense of parousia, or a second coming of poetry, wherein “une poésie antérieure” erupts and emerges out of later poetry, out of…
Arachnotopia
Arachnid and insectile lifeforms form an apocalyptic literary cluster linking early Islam, Lautréamont, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Salah Stétié. This essay begins by reimagining dialogues and interpersonal affections between the prophet Muḥammad and his close friend Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, who were granted safe passage through the mountains of Mecca by a spider. The story highlights the central role of animal life in the Qurʾān, which reads like a bestia…
The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
Hoda El Shakry’s The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb represents an incisive intervention in the fields of Arabic and francophone studies. El Shakry opens by lambasting ‘the geopoli
Tarkos Births a Vowel
In this essay, I show how the recorded screams of French performer-poet Christophe Tarkos (1963–2004) reveal a gaping hole wherein language undoes itself, in the very instance of discovering the conditions and possibilities of its own rebirth. I take Tarkos's first recorded video performance as a point of departure for contextualizing the landscape of contemporary French poetry, then define the prelingual and postlingual in relation to each other…
The Postlingual Turn
Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet, written by Ziad Elmarsafy
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean
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