Muslims in America
Muslims in America
The SAMLA 95 Conference - (In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies - will be held from November 9-11, 2023, at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, jazz musicians, punks, hip hop artists, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.
With the theme of SAMLA 95 - (In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies - panelists are asked to consider how these Muslim American writers and artists employ different media in their contrapuntal articulations of assimilation, alterity, dissent, and transgression in high and low art forms to the following: economic inequities, environmental insecurity, and state and corporate surveillance.
Please submit a 300-word abstract, with a short biography and A/V requirements, to Mahwash Shoaib (mahwashshoaib@hotmail.com; she/her/hers) by June 15.