event-icon

2020 Program Sessions

643. Being Human in Contemporary Arab Writing

5:15 PM–6:30 PM Jan 11, 2020 (US - Pacific)

WSCC - 211

Session Information

Presentations

1: Placing the Human in Hassan Najmi’s Gertrude

Michael Lackey, U of Minnesota, Morris

2: (Mis)Reading the Arab Body as (Non)Human in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land

Roberta Wolfson, California Polytechnic State U, San Luis Obispo

3: Retribution, Trauma, and Bodily Memory in Ahmad Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad

Kimberly Canuette Grimaldi, U of Texas, Austin

Presider

Ammar Naji, Colorado C

Tags