Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:02:30 +0800
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Wa=EFl_S=2E_Hassan=22?=  <whassan-AT-ilstu.edu>
Subject: CFP



Call for Papers: 2002 MLA -Rethinking Arab Community and Identity

The MLA Discussion Group for Arabic Literature and Culture has
issued a Call for Papers for the 2002 Conference in New York. The title
of the session will be Rethinking Arab Community and Identity. In
general, we are seeking papers on communal and individual
representations in works by Arab and Arab-diasporic writers. What
creates home and identity? How do ethnicity, gender, religion, and
politics operate here? We would, however, be especially interested in
papers on Gender and Islam, which historicize and open up debates
about gender, sexuality, and feminism in Arab and Muslim literature and
cultures, or on Islam, Culture, and Community Beyond September 11,
which could raise new and historical conceptions of political, cultural,
and religious belonging and dissent in Arab and Muslim literature and 
societies.
Proposals in electronic format by March 1 to Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward,
mysa-AT-adelphia.net. According to MLA requirements, All session
participants must be members in good standing by 1 April 2002 to be
listed in the Program issue of PMLA.


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