A Tale of Two Cities: The Scales of Literary History and the Ends of Comparison
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
This
talk
will
use
Niqula
al-Haddad’s
1910
Arabic
translation
of
American
author
Ignatius
Donnelly’s
1890
speculative
dystopia
Caesar’s
Column:
a
Tale
of
the
Twentieth
Century
to
explore
different
ways
of
thinking
about
the
objects
and
ends
of
comparative
method
in
relation
to
the
literary
archive.
I’m
especially
interested
in
how
scalar
inquiry
allows
the
reader
to
gather
the
incommensurable
geographies
and
temporalities
of
(post)colonial
historiography
into
flexible
and
productive
relationships
between
people,
texts
and
social
movements
that
unsettle
dominant
liberal/national
paradigms
of
history-making.
- Location
- Roy G. Cullen, Room 202
- Contact
- Hosam
Aboul-Ela
haboul-ela@uh.edu / cas@central.uh.edu