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Al-Samman Lecture: Postponed
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Location:
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Charlottesville
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Event Type(s):
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Lecture / Workshop
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Organization:
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Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
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Description:
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THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE WEATHER. WE WILL RESCHEDULE THE TALK SOON.
VFH Fellow Hanadi Al-Samman will speak on "Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Poetics." In this presentation on contemporary Arab women's literature in Europe and North America, Dr. Al-Samman will argue that contemporary Muslim and Christian female authors use their engagement with Western societies to reclaim their voice not as exiles, but as continuing participants in their homelands’ intellectual life. She will pay particular attention to the authors' double obsession with the motifs of the medieval Shahrazad (the queen and storyteller in A Thousand and One Nights) and the pre-Islamic wa’d al-banat (female infanticide).
Dr. Al-Samman is an assistant professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Indiana University and is a 2009-2010 Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Her talk is part of the Spring 2010 Lunchtime Talk series hosted by the VFH Fellowship Program . To rsvp for the complimentary lunch, please contact Ann White Spencer at aspencer@virginia.edu.
For more info on the VFH Fellowship Program, go to http://www.virginiafoundation.org/research/fellowships.
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Address:
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145 Ednam Drive
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
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Date:
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Tuesday, 2/9/2010
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Start Time:
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12:00 PM
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End Time:
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1:30 PM
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