I Hope Everyone Will Be Able to Buy a Copy of Modern Arabic Drama, Ed

I hope everyone will be able to buy a copy of Modern Arabic Drama, ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Roger Allen (Indiana UP, 1995), the best available anthology on this area. I will provide copies of Four Plays from North Africa. NB: The course will require one paper and a final exam.

Aug. 30 Introduction (read before first class. All are on electronic reserve)

1Allen, Roger, "Drama and Audience: The Case of Arabic Theater," TT 6:25-64

Badawi, : Modern Arabic Literature, “Introduction,” pp. 1-23 in The Cambridge History of ArabicLiterature

------, “Arab theatre and Language” 19-24 in The World Encyclopedia of

Contemporary Theatre, vol. 4 (1999)

Borges, "Averroes' Search" in Labyrinths

Cachia, Pierre, "Unwritten Arabic Fiction and Drama." Chapter 10 in An Overview of Modern ArabicLiterature. Edinburgh University, 1990.

Said, Edward, Orientalism, pp. 31-92, "The Scope of Orientalism.”

Sept. 13 Medieval drama (all on electronic reserve)

2Badawi, M.M., Early Arabic Drama, pp. 12-29 (electronic reserve passage also

includes pp. 1-11)

------, "Medieval Arabic Drama: Ibn Daniyal" Journal of Arabic Literature 13: 82-107

Machut-Mendecka, Ewa, "Arabic Traditional Theatre," Africana Bulletin (Warsaw) 42 (1994): 75-95.

Moreh, Shmuel, Live Theatre and Dramatic Literature inthe Medieval Arab

World, chapters 5, 7

Rowson, Everett K. "Two Homosexual Narratives from Mamluk Literature: al-Safadi's Law`at al-shaki and Ibn Daniyal's al-Mutayyam,"

in Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature, ed. J.W. Wright. Columbia University, 1997.

Sept. 20 The Ta`ziyeh of Iran and the Jari Gan of Bangladesh (all on electronic reserve)

3Ahmed, Syed Jamil, Acinpakhi Infinity: Indigenous Theatre of Bangladesh

177-88

Chelkowski, Peter J., Ta`zieh, the following essays:

Chelkowski, "Ta`ziyeh," pp. 1-11

Humayuni, Sadeq, "An Analysis of the Ta`ziyeh of Qasem," pp. 12-23 Mamnoun, Parviz, "Ta`zieh from the Viewpoint of Western Theatre," 154-66. Malekpour, Jamshid, “The Ta’zieh in Performance,” in The Islamic Drama (2004), chapter 5. TA’ZIEH PLAYS:

The Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain

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“Martyrdom of Husain"

"Conversion of a Christian Lady to the Muhammadan Faith"

“Conversion and Murder of the Ambassador from Europe”

Sept. 27 The Kargoz and Turkish theatre (all on electronic reserve)

4Martinovitch, Nicholas, The Turkish Theatre, pp. 13-45

PLAYS:

Orta Oiunu, The Sorcery

Meddah: The Seven Dull-Hearing Ones

Karagoz: The Bloody Popular

Halman, Talat S. Halman and Yane L. Warner, An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama: Introduction

PLAYS: Tecer, The Neighborhood (1947)

Dilmen, I, Anatolia (1984)

Oct. 4 Traditional Theatre in Indonesia

5Winet, Evan Darwin, Indian Postcolonial Theatre, chapter 1

Wright, Barbara S. “Islam and the Malay Shadow Play,”Asian Folklore Studies 40:1

(1981)

Brandon, James R. On Thrones of Gold, “Introduction,” pp. 1-14, 20-31 PLAY: Irawan’s Wedding (oral tradition, written down 1960)

Holiday

Oct. 18 Theatre in Syria and Egypt to 1960 (all on electronic reserve)

6Moosa, Matti, "Naqqash and the Rise of the Native Arab Theatre in Syria," JAL, III, 106-1 ------, "Yaqub Sanu and the Rise of Arab Drama in Egypt," International Journal of Middle EasternStudies 5 (1974), 401-33

Abou-Saif, L. "Najib Al-Rihani: From Buffoonery to Social Comedy," JAL, IV, 1-17

Cachia, Perre, “Idealism and Ideology: The Case of Tawfiz al-Hakim”

El Lozy, Mahmoud, “Censoring the Censor” TheatreThree 6 (1989):31-46.

PLAYS: Shawqi, Ahmed, The Death of Cleopatra, 1927

Al-Hakim, Tawfiq, Ahl al-Kahf (The Cave Dwellers, 1933)

------, preface to al-Malik Udib (King Oedipus, 1947)

Ashur, No’man, Sima Awanta (Give Us Our Money Back, 1958)

Oct. 25 Egyptian drama 1960-present

7 Farag-Badwi, Nadia, "Ali Salem: A Modern Egyptian Dramatist," JAL XII, 87-100.

Amin, Dina, “Alfred Farag and Political Commitment,” from Alfred Farag and Egyptian Theatre, chapter 1

Allen, Roger, “The Artistry of Yusuf Idris,” World Literature Today, 55:1 (Winter, 1981), 43-47

Carlson, Marvin, Roundtable discussion on Contemporary Theatre in Egypt, CUNY

Graduate Center,1999

PLAYS: Al-Hakim, Tawfiq, Ya Tali al-Shajarah (The Tree Climber, 1962) (OPT)

Idris, Yusuf, Al-Farafir (The Flipflaps) (1964)

Farag, Alfred, Ali Djanah al-Tabrizi (The Caravan) (1968)

Salem, Ali, Kumidyet Udib: Inta illi Qatalt il-Wahsh (The Comedyof Oedipus: You Killed the Monster) (1970)

El-Ramly, Lenin, In Plain Arabic (1992)

Nov. 1 Modern Syria and Lebanon (midterm mock exam—30 minutes)

8 Allen, Roger, "The Writings of Sa'adallah Wannus," JAL, XV (1984): 94-113 Gouryh, Admer, "Recent Trends in Syrian Drama," World Literature Today 60,2 (Spring, 1986): 216-21.

Karam, Raif, “The Taste of Bread,” TDR 47,4 (Winter, 2003), 128-43

PLAYS:

Mafuz, Isam, The China Tree (Lebanon, 1968) in Jayyusi anthology

Saneh, Lina and Rabih Mroué, Biokhraphia (Lebanon, 2002)

Wannus, Sa'dallah, The King is the King (Syria, 1974)

Iklahsi, Walid, Oedipus (Syria, 1978)

Nov. 8 The Maghreb

9 Carlson, Marvin, “Introduction” to Four Plays from North Africa

Folaron, Debbie, ALiving the Halqa,@Theatre InSight 17, 21-27

Sahli, Kamal, “Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia,” in Martin Banham, A History of Theatre in Africa (Cambridge, 2004), 37-76

PLAYS:

Alloula, Abdelkader, The Veil (Algeria, 1987)

Baccar, Jalila, Araberlin (Tunisia, 2002)

Gallaire, Fatima, House of Wives (Algeria, 1990)

Saddiki, Tayeb, The Folies Berbers (Morocco, 1993)

Al-Madani, Izz Al-Din, The Zanj Revolution (Tunisia, 1974) (OPT)

Nov. 15 Modern Iran

10Floor, Willem, selections from The History of Theatre in Iran (Washington, 2005)

Faique, Mohammad, A Complete Study of Persian Drama 1906-1995 (Delhi, 1999),

145-52

Optional: Massoudi, Shiva, “Kheimeh Shab Bazi: Iranian Traditional Marionette

Theatre,”Asian theatre Journal 26, 2 (Fall, 2009), 260-80.

Karimi-Hakak, Mahmood, “Exiled to Freedom,” TDR 47,4 (Winter, 2003), 17-50

PLAYS:

Sa’edi, Gholamhoseyn, Workaholics in the Trenches (1960)

Beyza’i, Bahram, Four Boxes(1963) Na’ibandian, Abbas, A Modern, Profound and Important Research in the Fossils of

The 25th Geological Era (1968)

Rahbar, Mahmud, Law (1978)

Yaghoubee, Mohammad, A Moment of Silence (1999)

Nov. 22 Modern Iraq and Kuwait

11 Cambridge History. Modern Arabic, 336-68, 394-98.

Al-Mubarak, Arabic Drama, 55-57, 63-93

PLAYS: Al-Asadi, Jawad, Forget Hamlet (Iraq, 1994)

------, Baghdad Bath (Iraq, 2006)

Al-Ani, Yusuf, The Key (Iraq, 1968), in Jayyusi

Al-Bassam, Sulayman, The Al-Hamlet Summit (Kuwait, 2002)

Al-Syayyi, Abd Al-Aziz, The Bird Has Flown (Kuwait, 1972), in Jayyusi anthology

Nov. 29 Palestine

12 Shteir, Rachel, "Al-Hakawati: Chameleon with a Voice," Theatre 3, 6 (1989), 47-53.

Snir, Reuven, The Emergence of Palestinian Professional Theatre after 1967,” Theatre Survey 46:1 (May 2005), 6-29.

Nassar, Hala, “Stories from Under the Occupation: Performing the Palestinian Experience,” Theatre Journal 58:1 (2006), 15-37

Urian, Dan, ed. "Perspectives on Palestinian Drama and Theater," in Theater in Israel, ed. Linda Ben-Zvi, University of Michigan, 1996, 323-45.

PLAYS:

Balalin Company, Darkness (Palestine, 1972) in Jayyusi anthology

Bsissu, Mueen, The Trial of the Book (Palestine, 1979), PAJ, 23 (1984): 92-99.

Najib, Taher, In Spitting Distance (2006)

Zuabi, Amir Nizar, I am Yusuf and This is My Brother (2010)

Dec. 6Pakistan

13“introduction” to Shahid Nadeem: Selected Plays

PLAYS: Nadeem, Shahid

The Third Knock (1970) Bulha (2001) Burqavaganza (2007)

Dec. 13Indonesia

14`Background: essay in Tenggara 23;

Evan Winet

PLAYS:

Willibordus Rendra, The Struggle of the Naga Tribe (1975)

Arifin Noer, The Bottomless Well (1964)

Dec. 20Final examination. Paper due

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