Conjunctures of the “New” World Literature and Migration Studies

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" Conjunctures of the “New” World Literature and Migration Studies "
Susan Stanford Friedman

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075807
Doc. No	:	LA119436
Call No	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00303004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Susan Stanford Friedman
Title & Author	:	Conjunctures of the “New” World Literature and Migration Studies [Article]\ Susan Stanford Friedman
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of World Literature
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/3
Page No	:	267–289
Abstract	:	The essay explores the overlapping discourses in the fields of the “new” world literature and the “new” migration studies, with a focus on their related discourses of circulation and cosmopolitanism. It examines the transnational circulation of writers in addition to texts in twenty-first century world literature with specific discussions of the cosmopolitan treatment of religion in the work of selected diasporic Muslim women writers, featuring Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul and Mohja Kahf’s E-Mails from Scheherazad and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. The essay considers the importance for diasporic Muslim women writers of Scheherazade as a learned woman and clever storyteller who saves the realm through words, not violence. Confronting Islamophobia and Orientalist fantasies of Muslim women, these authors locate traditions of cosmopolitanism and religious tolerance within their own heritage, not as an exclusive property of the West. The essay explores the overlapping discourses in the fields of the “new” world literature and the “new” migration studies, with a focus on their related discourses of circulation and cosmopolitanism. It examines the transnational circulation of writers in addition to texts in twenty-first century world literature with specific discussions of the cosmopolitan treatment of religion in the work of selected diasporic Muslim women writers, featuring Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul and Mohja Kahf’s E-Mails from Scheherazad and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. The essay considers the importance for diasporic Muslim women writers of Scheherazade as a learned woman and clever storyteller who saves the realm through words, not violence. Confronting Islamophobia and Orientalist fantasies of Muslim women, these authors locate traditions of cosmopolitanism and religious tolerance within their own heritage, not as an exclusive property of the West.
Descriptor	:	circulation
Descriptor	:	cosmopolitanism
Descriptor	:	Elif Shafak
Descriptor	:	Islamophobia
Descriptor	:	Mohja Kahf
Descriptor	:	religion
Descriptor	:	World Literature
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00303004‬