Contemporary Syrian literature bears unmistakable traces of more than four decades of authoritarian rule. This article identifies connections among aesthetics, politics, and affect in two Syrian novels, Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan’s Brūfā (Rough Draft) (2011) and Samar Yazbik’s Lahā marāyā (In Her Mirrors) (2010). Through literary representations of state security (the mukhābarāt), surveillance—including the structure and function of mirrors and screens, eavesdropping, and security stations—and new conceptions of the political, state power influences cultural production, even as the contemporary Syrian novel offers a critique of authoritarian dictatorship’s immanent relationship to the practice of narration itself.

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Baʿthist 叙利亚的视觉、声音和监视：Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan 的草稿和 Samar Yazbik 的《镜中》中的政治小说

当代叙利亚文学带有明确无误的四个多十年专制统治的痕迹。本文确定了两部叙利亚小说 Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan 的 Brūfā（草稿）（2011 年）和 Samar Yazbik 的 Lahā marāyā（In Her Mirrors）（2010 年）中美学、政治和情感之间的联系。通过对国家安全 (the mukhābarāt)、监视（包括镜子和屏风、窃听和安全站的结构和功能）的文学表现，以及政治、国家权力的新概念影响文化生产，即使当代叙利亚小说提供了一个对独裁专制与叙事实践本身的内在关系的批判。