Most Recent Articles from Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics  

• "The Simple little picture book": private theater to postmodern experience

  A picture book is a text, illustrations, total design; an item of manufacture and a commercial product; a social, cultural, historical document; and,...

  1/1/07 by Wiam El-Tamami · More from publication

• "Faint and imperfect stamps": the problem with adaptations of Shakespeare for children

  Despite the numerous reasons against adapting Shakespeare's works for young children--including the difficult language and mature subject matter of...

  1/1/07 by Stephannie S. Gearhart · More from publication

• The Little Prince and the Air Force Pilot

  The Little Prince and the Air Force Pilot"You should have seen the imploded children you have killed in your last air raid," said the...

  1/1/07 by Sharif S. Elmusa · More from publication

• Childhood: creativity and representation

  Writing for children, or about children, is deceptively easy. Children remain an enigma represented by adults. They are not in a position to offer an...

  1/1/07 · More from publication

• Seeing children: a photographer's view from the Arab world

  In this testimonial essay, the author introduces some of the children he has encountered while covering events in the Arab World for over...

  1/1/07 by Thomas Hartwell · More from publication

• The Arab child between East and West: a reading of Al Shamshun, 'Alam Simsim, and Bakkar

  This article explores the continued Western influence upon Arabic children's literature, addressed to different age groups, and the various forms of...

  1/1/07 by Mounira Soliman · More from publication

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