Arabic-L:PEDA&LIT:CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation

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1) Subject: CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation

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Date: 17 Oct 2013
From: KateC Wilson <wilson.katec at gmail.com>
Subject: CFP Teaching Modern Arabic Lit in Translation

Call for Essay Proposals for Volume on Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in
Translation

Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching
series entitled *Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation*, to be
edited by Michelle Hartman. This volume is designed to offer a broad range
of ways to think through the teaching of Arabic literature in translation
in English. Essays will address the challenges of teaching Arabic
literature in translation in a variety of
courses<http://www.mla.org/options_mod_arabic_lit>and institutions.
The volume will provide suggestions for nonspecialists
who wish to teach Arabic literature, and it will offer specialists in the
field new perspectives on teaching. Essays should focus not just on
teaching the texts but on teaching them as translations and should
*demonstrate
some familiarity with the field of translation studies*.

Essays should also take into account the following: the legacies of
orientalism in teaching Arabic literature today; the politics of teaching
Arabic literature in particular locations (whether in North America or
elsewhere); and the ethical responsibilities of teaching literature
translated from Arabic in the classroom. *Modern* will be used in its
broadest possible meaning; essays are welcomed about teaching Arabic
literature from any period considered modern, particularly essays on texts
from the nineteenth century and/or the *nahda*. Essays focusing on
questions of canonicity and on canonical and noncanonical authors are also
welcomed.

Possible topics for essays include

·          teaching Arabic literature in different kinds of
courses<http://www.mla.org/options_mod_arabic_lit>

o    postcolonial literature,

o    world literature,

o    gender studies, etc.

·          teaching Arabic literature if you do not know Arabic; history,
current events, and

·          the politics of teaching Arabic literature;

·          working within and beyond the canon of modern Arabic literature.

If you are interested in contributing an essay (3,000–3,500 words), please
send a summary proposal (500 words) to Michelle Hartman (
michelle.hartman at mcgill.ca) by 15 November 2013.

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