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Appel à communication : “Other” Narratives of Islamic Spain (17-20 mars, Boston) (date limite : 23 septembre 2015)

Paper proposals are being sought for “Other” Narratives of Islamic Spain,” a panel at the 2016 meeting of American Comparative Literature Association to be held in Boston on 17-20 March 2016.

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

Organizer: Anna C. Cruz, University of California, Berkeley – accruz@berkeley.edu
Co-Organizer: Catherine Infante, Amherst College – cinfante@amherst.edu


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Ouidad Hamitri (4 septembre 2015). Appel à communication : “Other” Narratives of Islamic Spain (17-20 mars, Boston) (date limite : 23 septembre 2015). Diwan. Consulté le 18 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/nqd9


Ouidad Hamitri

Doctorante en Histoire Médiévale à l'Université Lyon 2 et membre du CIHAM, elle travaille sur la chirurgie en Al-Andalus (Xe-XVe s.)

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