abstract:This article examines the Arabic fiction of ʿAfifa Karam (1883–1924), an overlooked contributor to the nahda, or the Arabic cultural renaissance of the mid- to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Mount Lebanon, Karam became a novelist, journalist, and translator in the North American mahjar (Arab diaspora). A discussion of Karam's novel, Fatima al-Badawiyya (Fatima the Bedouin), published in New York City in 1909, explores the author's engagement with gender politics within a hybridized cultural space. Such attention also reveals the transnational character of nahda literary culture, as readers and writers scattered across four continents interacted in the textual "spaces" of the rapidly expanding print culture in the Arabic-speaking world. As a single player within an international network of Syro-Lebanese women writers, Karam's foundational feminist fiction reveals her cosmopolitan female subjectivity, offering a radical vision of global sisterhood that transcends geographic, political, and religious boundaries.

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颠覆性的姐妹情谊

摘要：本文考察了 ʿAfifa Karam（1883-1924）的阿拉伯小说，他是 19 世纪中后期和 20 世纪早期阿拉伯文化复兴的被忽视的贡献者。卡拉姆出生于黎巴嫩山，后来成为北美马赫贾尔（阿拉伯侨民）的小说家、记者和翻译家。1909 年在纽约市出版的 Karam 的小说 Fatima al-Badawiyya（法蒂玛贝都因人）的讨论探讨了作者在混合文化空间中对性别政治的参与。这种关注也揭示了 nahda 文学文化的跨国特征，因为散布在四大洲的读者和作家在阿拉伯语世界迅速扩张的印刷文化的文本“空间”中互动。