[csaa-forum] Research Seminar at UNSW

[Collin Chua]

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SAM Research Seminar Series, 2013
When: Tuesday, 30 July, 4.30-6pm
Where: Robert Webster Building, Room 327
http://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/seminars/

‘Multicultural Literature in English: A Comparison Between Iranian Writings in the United-States and in Australia’

Sanaz Fotouhi and Laetitia Nanquette

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, a massive number of Iranian writers have migrated to Western countries, first to the United States and more recently to Australia. In the last decade, many of them started to publish literary texts of all genres in English, contributing to the multicultural literature of their host country. In this paper, we will study the differences and similarities of these two diasporic literary spaces by comparing the different histories of migration and conditions of diaspora as well as by close-reading selected texts from Iranian-American and Iranian-Australian writers.
This study will allow us to reflect on the place of multicultural (also called ethnic) literature in the United-States and in Australia, as well as to question the existence of and situation of a global Iranian literature in English within the wider context of World Literatures in English.

Dr Laetitia Nanquette is a Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW. Her monograph Orientalism versus Occidentalism: Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran since the Islamic Revolution came out in 2013.

Dr Sanaz Fotouhi is a scholar on Iranian literature in English. Her book The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identity since the Islamic Revolution is due out with IB Tauris in mid 2014.

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The School’s Research Seminars provide a showcase for local as well as international scholars, researchers, industry practitioners and creative artists to present their work. All are welcome to attend. Contact Collin Chua (C.Chua at unsw.edu.au<mailto:C.Chua at unsw.edu.au>) with any inquiries.

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