Seminar: 3.02.991 S The Postcolonial Middle East? The Arab Uprisings and the Anglophone Literary Market - Details

Seminar: 3.02.991 S The Postcolonial Middle East? The Arab Uprisings and the Anglophone Literary Market - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 3.02.991 S The Postcolonial Middle East? The Arab Uprisings and the Anglophone Literary Market
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Veranstaltungsnummer 3.02.991
Semester WiSe21/22
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 13
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 25
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Erster Termin Montag, 18.10.2021 16:00 - 18:00, Ort: (online)
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Lehrsprache englisch

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(online)
Montag: 16:00 - 18:00, wöchentlich (14x)

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Would you happen to know which country in the world has not introduced women’s suffrage yet? While the majority of people would spontaneously assume that it is Saudi-Arabia, hardly anyone guesses that the last country without votes for women is in fact a country in Europe, the Vatican. Due to the predominantly negative framing of the Middle East and North Africa region in Western press coverage, this comes as no surprise: Bin Laden, beards, bombs and burkas, the so-called refugee crisis, the rise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State and terrorism – in the last two decades, the region has mainly been associated with gender inequality, backwardness, fanaticism, threat and terrorism. In this string of negative associations, Tahrir – “liberation” – is the odd one out. When the Arab uprisings began in 2011, Tahrir Square became an emblem of emancipation and transnational protest – in fact, intellectuals such as Slavoj Žižek or Hamid Dabashi even hailed the uprisings as the possible end of postcolonialism. In this seminar, we will analyse three books (two novels and a short novel) published in the Anglophone literary market. In combination with secondary readings on Orientalism, anti-Muslim racism and ethnosexism, these texts will serve us as a springboard into numerous discussions about for instance the role of the Arab uprisings for the postcolonial Middle East, the delicate balance between a critique of anti-Muslim racism and a legitimate religious critique, the seemingly insatiable appetite of the literary market for exoticised difference – and about resistant modes of writing a revolution.

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