Most Recent Articles from Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics

• The Little Prince and the Air Force Pilot 

  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...

  01/01/07 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...

  01/01/07 · 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...

  01/01/07 by Thomas Hartwell · More from publication

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book is a text, illustrations, total design; an item of manufacture and a commercial product; a social, cultural, historical document;...

  01/01/07 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...

  01/01/07 by Stephannie S. Gearhart · More from publication

• History's child: Virginia Woolf, heritage, and historical consciousness 

  I felt as a gipsy or a child feels who stands at the flap of the tent and sees the circus going on inside. I felt as a gipsy or a child feels who...

  01/01/07 by Mia Carter · More from publication

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