Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:00:28 -0500 (EST) From: HNKadhim <hnkadhim-AT-indiana.edu> Subject: CFP: Arabic Literature Seminar/ACLA THE ARABIC LITERATURE SEMINAR 2001 "Arabic Literature and the Post-colonial" This CFP is also posted at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kadhim/als.html The Arabic Literature Study Group (ALSG), will sponsor a Seminar on "Arabic Literature and the Post-colonial" at the annual convention of the American Comparative Literature Association, April 20-22, 2001, in Boulder, Colorado. The Seminar will be conducted over a 3-day period and will include 12 to 14 presentations. Selected papers will be published in a special Issue of the Journal of Arabic Literature. PARTICIPATION IN THE SEMINAR IS OPEN TO ALSG MEMBERS AND NONMEMBERS ALIKE. CALL FOR PROPOSALS The field of post-colonial studies has given rise to a wide range of theoretical formulations, concepts, and debates. This remarkable output, however, has been largely concerned with literatures written in English and other European languages. The fact that, over the last two centuries, much of the Arab "space" was colonized by one Western power or another, and that Arabic discourses of the period manifested a relentless oppositionality vis-a-vis the colonizer may point to the potential relevance of post-colonial theory to the Arabic context. Proposals are invited for papers that broadly attempt to bring the critical and theoretical insights made possible by post-colonial studies to bear on Arabic literary contexts. Prospective participants might consider: - The (in)applicability of post-colonial theory to Arabic literature - Decolonization, language, space, and history - Hegemonic centers/subaltern margins - Journeys, exile, return - Loss and Memory - Recovered histories, time, place, and space - Representation and resistance - Dispossession and dislocation - Identities and representations - Nation and nationalism(s) - Metaphors and icons of nation - Post- Arab Nationalism - The East-West encounter/Encountering the other(s) - Tradition and revolution - (Re)constructing the Arabic canon(s) - Gender and postcoloniality - Postmodernism and postcolonialism - Globalization, Transculturation, and Neocolonialism Papers might approach such questions on a broad theoretical basis or through the critical consideration of particular Arabic texts. Proposals for individual papers (including a 250-word abstract and a summary CV or biographical paragraph), should be emailed to the seminar organizer at <Hussein.Kadhim-AT-Dartmouth.Edu> or sent to the address below by October 1, 2000. Hussein Kadhim Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures 6191 Bartlett Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 Email: Hussein.Kadhim-AT-Dartmouth.Edu _______________ --- from list postcolonial-info-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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