The CLCS Global Arab and Arab American forum is interested in works of the Arab diaspora, including the cultural production of Arab American and global Arab writers. The category “Global Arab” allows for a broad conceptualization of diasporic and multilingual work situated within the various national, ethnic, religious, and cultural contexts of the Arab world and the Middle East. The designation “Arab American” is linked to the category “Global Arab” yet deserves special attention as a distinct subfield within American literature that engages with the discourses of race and ethnicity in the United States as well as with the history of Arab and Middle Eastern migrations to the Americas.
CFP_ Transacting Arab Literary Modernity; CFP_ Global Transactional Cultures and Identities in/of the Mediterranean; CFP _ Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans in Trump’s USA: Politics and Performance
Transacting Arab Literary Modernity
Paper proposals examining cross-cultural, global influences on Arab literary modernity in 19th-20th centuries (colonialism, Orientalism, philology, travel, literary / cultural exchange, translation, Nahda, etc.) invited for MLA 2019 session. Short cv and 300-word abstract by 3/25/2018, karim.mattar@colorado.edu
Global Transactional Cultures and Identities in/of the Mediterranean
Transactional engagement with Mediterranean cultures and identities; transhistorical, transcolonial, parallel textualities; rewriting.
Send short CV and 300-word abstract by March 23, 2018 to Nevine El Nossery (elnossery@wisc.edu) and Ahmed Idrissi (aidrissi@purdue.edu).
Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans in Trump’s USA: Politics and Performance
Paper proposals examining politics and performance by Arab-American and Muslim-American youth cultures (hip hop, rap, slam poetry, theatre, etc.) invited for MLA 2019 session. Short cv and 300-word abstract by 3/25/2018, rc49@soas.ac.uk.
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