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*CFP: "Other" Narratives of Islamic Spain - ACLA 2016, Boston

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CFP: "Other" Narratives of Islamic Spain - ACLA 2016, Boston [discussion]
by Anna Cruz

*Call for Papers: American Comparative Literature Association
2016 Conference, March 17-20, Boston, MA*
http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting [1]

*“Other” Narratives of Islamic Spain*

Organizer: Anna C. Cruz, University of California, Berkeley –
accruz at berkeley.edu [2]
Co-Organizer: Catherine Infante, Amherst College – cinfante at berkeley.edu
[3]

What is al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) and how does one define it? The answer to
this question varies based on who makes a claim to this heritage, whether
they are Arab/non-Arab Muslims, Jews, or Spanish/European Christians. As a
result, Islamic Spain, in the words of María Rosa Menocal, has been
relegated to scholarship along “single-language lines.”

This panel aims to bring these “single-language lines” together and
question the institutionalized, i.e. Eurocentric, paradigms and/or explore
alternative narratives surrounding the literary culture and history of
Islamic Spain. Rather than adhering to the discourse that this period, which
lasted from 711 to 1492, was either a time of /convivencia /or /reconquista/,
this seminar seeks papers that highlight the assortment of voices that
represent medieval Spain or draw upon this past in order to understand,
reexamine, or rewrite preexisting narratives of Spanish, North African, Arab,
Jewish history, among others. Relying upon Homi Bhabha’s notion of the
“third space,” our goal is to gain a more nuanced understanding of the
history of Islamic Spain, a region that is rarely discussed in European or
Middle Eastern literatures, through multilingual approaches and
methodologies.

We invite paper submissions that address this topic from any historical
period, national/political, linguistic, or theoretical framework.

Topics include, but not limited to:

  * Literatures from the Morisco/Mozarab/Sephardic/Mudéjar perspective
  * Spain’s palimpsestic history and cultural heritage
  * Other medieval perspectives on Islamic Spain
  * Representations of Islamic Spain in contemporary literature
  * Challenges to hybridity, diversity, conversion post-1492
  * Constructions/articulations of modern Arab/Jewish identity with regards to
    the history of Islamic Spain
  * The “other’s” encounter with Spain as seen in travel narratives

***Paper proposals will be accepted from September 1-23 via ACLA’s
website***


[1] http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
[2] mailto:accruz at berkeley.edu
[3] mailto:cinfante at berkeley.edu
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