The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016)
- Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab émigré/exiled/refugee writers and their publics redefine the global? Role of gender, religion, language, literary economies. 250-word abstracts, bios by March 15 to Carol Fadda-Conrey cfaddaco@syr.edu
- Politics of Solidarities and Cross-Racial Alliances (Panel co-sponsored by the Twentieth-Century American Literature Forum)
Representations of cross-racial relations in US, transnational contexts: indigenous solidarities; Arab Americans and other racialized US minorities in relational frameworks. 250-word abstracts, bios by March 13 to Carol Fadda-Conrey cfaddaco@syr.edu
If you are an MLA member, please consider joining the forum’s MLA Commons page: http://commons.mla.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/
