[Andalusi Studies] Fwd: H-Mideast-Medieval daily digest:

[Dwight Reynolds]

PLEASE NOTE:  Catherine Infante's email address has changed -- she is now at:

        cinfante at amherst.edu



Quoting Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>:

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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
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> *Call for Papers: American Comparative Literature Association
> 2016 Conference, March 17-20, Boston, MA*
> http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting [1]
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> *“Other” Narratives of Islamic Spain*
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> Organizer: Anna C. Cruz, University of California, Berkeley –
> accruz at berkeley.edu [2]
> Co-Organizer: Catherine Infante, Amherst College – cinfante at berkeley.edu
> [3]
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> We invite paper submissions that address this topic from any historical
> period, national/political, linguistic, or theoretical framework.
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> Topics include, but not limited to:
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>  * 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
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> ***Paper proposals will be accepted from September 1-23 via ACLA’s
> website***
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> [1] http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
> [2] mailto:accruz at berkeley.edu
> [3] mailto:cinfante at berkeley.edu
> Read more or reply:  
> https://networks.h-net.org/node/8330/discussions/80530/cfp-other-narratives-islamic-spain-acla-2016-boston
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