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CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Panels at MLA 2020

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  • 26 February 2019 at 5:27 pm #1020244

    Karim Mattar
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    Dear Friends,

    We write to invite submissions for one or both of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Panels at MLA 2020:

    • Poetics and Politics of Defeat: Reconfiguring the Human after the Arab Spring. This panel reconsiders representations of the human / inhuman / posthuman in relation to the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Papers welcome on Arab literary and cultural responses to defeat.  Please send a 200 word abstract and CV to Ala A. Alryyes (alryyes@alum.mit.edu) and Rasha Chatta (rc49@soas.ac.uk) by 3/29/2019.
    • Orientalism, Philology, World Literature.  This panel explores the origins of “World Literature” in colonial history, and develops new, decolonizing critical methodologies for a worlded literary studies. Papers welcome on any author, genre, period, field, region, tradition, etc.  Please send a 200 word abstract and CV to Karim Mattar (karim.mattar@colorado.edu) and Ahmed Idrissi Alami (aidrissi@purdue.edu) by 3/29/2019.

    We look forward to seeing many of you in Seattle!

    Executive Committee

    This topic was also posted in: LLC West Asian, TC Postcolonial Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American.
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