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Fuga ed esilio di Mayy Ziyāda

Nazareth 1886-Il Cairo 1941

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Abstract

The life of Mayy Ziyāda, a complex – and still underestimated – intellectual figure at the time of the Nahḍa or Arab «renaissance», appears in many ways a gradual and necessary flight from the world and, at the same time, a progressive refinement of the sensibility. From her birth in Nazareth, her youth amid the nationalist and anti-British agitation in Cairo, a cosmopolitan and multicultural city, to her hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital in Beirut, then finally back to Cairo where she died in utter solitude, Mayy Ziyāda’s wide and varied literary production speaks for those who, fleeing from themselves and from the emotions of a world at once changing and resisting change, are foreigners everywhere, forever «in the wrong place».


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Presentato: 24 Luglio 2018 | Accettato: 06 Agosto 2018 | Pubblicato 06 Novembre 2018 | Lingua: it

Keywords Nahḍa • Mayy Ziyāda • Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān • Arabic language and literature

Copyright © 2018 Ida Zilio-Grandi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-238-3/004


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