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Dear all,
Please keep checking this space before your weekly session, as I will be posting the latest announcements about the seminar here.
Please browse through the seminar outline and reader below. Please check/read/watch the readings/videos for the first session beforehand. You may find that some readings in the reader are still missing (yellow marked), and will be added at a later date.
Kindly note that you are expected to obtain a copy of the primary texts/novels. Please let me know if that is a problem, and I will look into solutions.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Pavan Malreddy -
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In this session we will work with two readings; one dealing with history and one with the literary contexts of Arab Anglophone literatures.
Both are trerrific readings and I hope you will enjoy. Be prepared also for some group work.
2. Arab Nationalism from a Historical Perspective: A Gradual Demise? by İsmail Kuran
3. Arab Voices in Western Writing: The Politics of the Arabic Novel in English and the Anglophone Arab Novel by Geoffrey Nash
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Session 3
24.04.
4. Anglophone Arab Literature: An Overview by Layla Al Maleh
(Read the article except for the Australia part)
5. The Anglophone Imaginary and Agency in Contemporary Egyptian Novels by Pavan Malreddy and Stefanie Kemmerer
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Omar Hamilton’s The City Always Wins:
Review 1:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/04/city-always-wins-omar-robert-hamilton
Review 2:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/07/the-story-of-a-revolution-told-in-real-time/532221/
Review 3: https://jotthejournal.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/jot-monsoon-2020-3.pdf#page=42 (page 34-39)
Review 4: Good Reads.com -
The City Always Wins, Session 2. Violence, and the Arab Spring,
-what was most surprising yet educational to you in the novel, that you never thought of before?
-what is the character in the novel that speaks to you the most?
- can you pick and read a passage that you found most striking?