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Cross-Revolutionary Reading: Visions of Vietnam in the Transnational Arab Avant-Garde

Cross-Revolutionary Reading: Visions of Vietnam in the Transnational Arab Avant-Garde This article looks at cross-revolutionary writing among Arab writers who, after the 1967 War, looked to Vietnam as an anti-imperialist revolutionary co-cause of the Palestinians and a possible alternative future of national liberation, and to Vietnamese literature as a parallel “literature of resistance.” Taking the Vietnam-Palestine comparison as a focal point, this article illuminates a transnational Arab network of avant-garde literary production that corresponded with, translated, and published each other’s work in Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, and the United States. As such, rather than an example of direct South-South comparison, cross-revolutionary Arab writing via Vietnam triangulated its critiques through the United States and European leftist movements, producing a model of literary production and revolutionary vision that was distinct from and critical of those movements’ solidarity politics. Cross-revolutionary reading produced a distinct conception of literary commitment and a new aesthetic sensibility in Arabic literature, and provides a model of comparison that does not elide but circumscribes European and American literature within its visionary gaze. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Cross-Revolutionary Reading: Visions of Vietnam in the Transnational Arab Avant-Garde

Johnson, Rebecca C.
Comparative Literature , Volume 73 (3) – Sep 1, 2021
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Abstract

This article looks at cross-revolutionary writing among Arab writers who, after the 1967 War, looked to Vietnam as an anti-imperialist revolutionary co-cause of the Palestinians and a possible alternative future of national liberation, and to Vietnamese literature as a parallel “literature of resistance.” Taking the Vietnam-Palestine comparison as a focal point, this article illuminates a transnational Arab network of avant-garde literary production that corresponded with, translated, and published each other’s work in Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, and the United States. As such, rather than an example of direct South-South comparison, cross-revolutionary Arab writing via Vietnam triangulated its critiques through the United States and European leftist movements, producing a model of literary production and revolutionary vision that was distinct from and critical of those movements’ solidarity politics. Cross-revolutionary reading produced a distinct conception of literary commitment and a new aesthetic sensibility in Arabic literature, and provides a model of comparison that does not elide but circumscribes European and American literature within its visionary gaze.

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Comparative Literature – Duke University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2021

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    `Abd al-Dā’im, `Abdallah
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    Abu-Remaileh, Refqa Albers, Yvonne Khalil, Georges Pannewick, Friederike
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    `Adnān, Aytīl
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    Adnan, Etel Tillman, Lynne
  • The Enemy’s Testament
    Adnan, Etel Lowenfels,
  • Jebu
    Adnan, Etel Donovan, Thom Shimoda, Brandon
  • Le manifest du 5 juin 1967
  • Bayān 5 June 1967
  • A Grave . . . Because of New York
    Adūnīs, Toorawa, Shawkat M.
  • Qabr min ajl Niyū Yūrk” (“Tombeau/Grave for New York”)
  • ‘A Dance of Freedom’ in the Worlds of Etel Adnan
    Alcalay, Ammiel Donovan, Thom Shimoda, Brandon
  • Sargon Boulus and Tu Fu’s Ghost(s)
    Antoon, Sinan
  • Rewriting Algeria: Transcultural Kinship and Anticolonial Revolution in Kateb Yacine’s L’homme aux sandales de caoutchouc
    Aziz, Adam Adelakun, Abimbola Falola, Toyin
  • The Inward Turn and Its Vicissitudes: Culture, Society, and Politics in Post-1967 Arab Leftist Critiques
    Bardawil, Fadi A. Bouziane, Malika Harders, Cilja Hoffmann, Anja
  • Comportements de nos cadres devant le problème palestinien
    Benjelloun, Omar
  • Palestinian Expression inside a Cultural Ghetto
    Boullata, Kamal
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    Bullāṭa, Kamāl
  • Ayna Hiya Fītnām?
    Būluṣ, Sargūn
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    Chamberlin, Paul Thomas
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    Espiritu, Evyn Lê
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    Faraḥ, Muḥammad
  • Tū Hū: al-Shā`ir al-Fītnāmī al-Mu`āṣir
    Faraḥ, Muḥammad
  • Al-Adab wa al-tajriba al-fītnāmiyya” (“Literature and the Vietnamese Experience”)
    Ḥāfiẓ, Ṣabrī
  • Lotus, the Afro-Asian Nexus, and Global South Comparatism
    Halim, Hala
  • Etel Adnan’s Transcolonial Mediterranean
    Harrison, Olivia C. Elhariry, Yasser Talbayev, Edwige Tamalet
  • ‘A Grave for New York’ and ‘New York 80.’
    Hartman, Michelle Amanat, Abbas Bernhardsson, Magnus
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    Hassan, Waïl S.
  • Sh`ir min al-Fītnām . .
    Kamāl al-Dīn, Khalīl
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    Kanafani, Ghassan
  • . . . Wa Fītnām Aydan!
    Khamīs, Yusrī al-
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    Kilānī, Haytham al-
  • Jarā’im al-ḥarb fī Fītnām” (“War Crimes in Vietnam,” by Bertrand Russell)
    Kīlū, Mīshīl
  • mobilisation-tract
    Laâbi, Abdellatif
  • Nous sommes tous des réfugiés palestiniens
    Laâbi, Abdellatif
  • Vietnamese Poetry, 1945–1975
    Malawaḥī, `Abd al-Mu`ayn al-
  • It Just Grabbed Me, This Magic of Words, and Music: Interview with Sargon Boulus
    Obank, Margaret
  • You, the Arab Artist Who Rejects the West, What Is Your East? Interview with Adel Saghir, Stélio Scamanga, and Mounir Najm
    Sayegh, Samir Lenssen, Anneka Rogers, Sarah A. Shabout, Nada
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    Sharabī, Hishām
  • Qiṣṣat al-ḥarb al-dā’ira fī fītnām
    Shibl, Fu’ād
  • Adab al-muqāwima fī Fītnām
    Shukrī, Ghālī
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    Shukrī, Ghālī
  • Impressions du Vietnam
    Ṣibā`ī, Yūsuf al-
  • The Place of Africa, in Theory: Pan-Africanism, Postcolonialism, Beyond
    Tageldin, Shaden M.
  • Comment le vietnamien est devenu la langue de l’enseignement en R.D.V.N
    Van Huyen, Nguyen
  • L’enseignement dans les zones libérées du Sud-Vietnam
    Van Huyen, Nguyen
  • Bayānāt li-masraḥ `arabī jadīd” (“Manifestoes for a New Arab Theater”)
    Wannūs, Sa`dallah