Arabic-L:LIT:Puerto Rico Conference

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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: reposted from Arabic-Info
Subject: Puerto Rico Conference

"Journeys, Exile, Loss, and Memory"
San Juan, Puerto Rico	April 11-14, 2002
CONTACT: Hussein.Kadhim at Dartmouth.Edu


FRIDAY APRIL 12, 2002 (All Streams)

Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
"The Essential Journey: The Rahil in the Classical Arabic Ode

Jocelyn Sharlet, Brown University
"The Rhetoric of Memory: Early Islamic Representations of Pre-Islamic Arab
Culture in Literary Criticism and Grammar"

Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Indiana University Bloomington
"The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Etiology, Etymology
and Onomatopoeia in Two Elegies by al-Ma`arri"

Muhsin al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah
"Memory Lost, and Memory Regained: The Formation of the Exilic in Modern
Arabic Poetry"

George N. El-Hage, Columbia Univeristy
"The Journey in the Poetic World of Khalil Hawi"

Saadi A. Simawe, Grinnell College
"Exile, Language, and Biology in the Poetry of Aziz Simawe"

Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College
"The Bard of Tigris: Mu'ruf al-Rusafi and the Poetics of Exile"

Issa J. Boullata, McGill University
"Poetry as Homeland: Mahmoud Darwish and the Loss of Palestine."


SATURDAY APRIL 13, 2002 (All Streams)

Roxanne Euben, Wellesley College
"Travel Theory and Political Wisdon: Western and Islamic Journeys to 'the
Other Shore'"

Salwa Ghaly, University of Sharjah
"Between Two Worlds: Gibran's and al-Rihani's Vision of America"

Anna Ayse Akasoy, Muenster University, Germany
"Concepts of Home in the Poetical Works of Fawzi al-Ma'luf"

Clarissa Burt, American University of Cairo
"Remembering al-Mutanabbi: Adonis's Mask of Memory"

Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina
"The Tale of Those Who Did Not Travel: Reading Yahya al-Tahir Abdullah's
'The Neckband and the Bracelet' as Sirah"

Mustapha Hamil, State University of West Georgia
"From Manchester to Fez: Adbelmajid Ben Jelloun's Journey of Loss and
Betrayal in 'Fi At-Tufulah'"

Stephen Sheehi, Duke University
"Beirut and the Space of Memory"

Nader Uthman, Columbia University
"Home and Exile in Adbul Rahman Munif's Novel 'East of the Mediterranean'"


SUNDAY APRIL 14, 2002

William Granara, Harvard University
"The Andalusian Past and the Quest for Modernity in the Modern Arabic
Novel"

Nezar Andary, UCLA
"The Consuming Fever of History in Contemporary Arabic Literature"

Elliott Colla, Brown University
"Exile on 26th of July Street: Downtown Cairo in the Fiction of 'Abdullah
and Aslan"

Mohammed AlQuwaizani, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Can the Individual Remember? Collective Memory in Mahfouz's Trilogy"


CONFERENCE REGISTRATION, HOTEL, AND AIRLINE INFORMATION
http://www.acla.org/index2_frames.html

The last session of the Seminar ends at 1 pm Sun. April 14. Please
arrange your travel schedule so as to be able to attend all sessions.
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