Session Information
Presentations
1: Critical Reception of Francophone North African Writers in the United States: An Expected Fame?
Meryem Belkaid, Bowdoin C
2: Reception of Insurgency-Themed Fiction from the Global South: Insights from Close and Distant Reading
Meghan Gorman-DaRif, U of Texas, Austin
Sayan Bhattacharyya, U of Pennsylvania
3: From Exoticism to the Exote: Attending to Liminal Circulations between France, North Africa, and Japan in Hubert Haddad
Matthew Brauer, Northwestern U
4: Said’s ‘Traveling Theory’ and the Varied Reception of Leila Aboulela’s Fiction
Rebecca Dyer, Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.
Presider
Cajetan Iheka, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa