BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4831-b5d5d6c42de2ddc8eda121c691f07182@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260523T052233Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T110000 SUMMARY:“Where is Palestinian American Literature?” DESCRIPTION:\nBenjamin Schreier\, Professor of English and Jewish Studie s\n\nThough &ldquo\;Palestine&rdquo\;&mdash\;as place\, national aspirat ion\, conflict\, refugee crisis\, and/or figure for political-cultural i nvestments&mdash\;stands at the institutional origin of the fields of Ar ab American literature in particular and Arab American studies more gene rally\, Palestinian American literature itself has so far mostly failed to become a discrete object of disciplinary study. Palestinian American authors have by no means been ignored\, but they are rarely analyzed out side other\, subordinating frameworks. This has limited opportunities to critically examine mechanisms of identity- and institution-formation. A n emergent archive\, which might otherwise support a dynamic field of de dicated literary scholarship\, instead frequently suffers overdeterminat ion. It&rsquo\;s regularly merged into Arab American literature\, itself a composite category representing a patchwork of histories\, which reve als much about U.S. cultural politics\, but less about Palestinian speci ficity. Sometimes it&rsquo\;s relegated to Middle East studies\, either considered other than unproblematically &ldquo\;American&rdquo\; or disc iplinarily subsumed under the non-literary methodologies that predominat e there. Or it gets studied in an auxiliary relationship to Israel polit ics\, Jewish identification\, or Jewish American literature\, subject to a dominant Jewish studies approach I call &ldquo\;Zionist&rdquo\; for i ts colonization of anything related to Israel for the purposes of Jewish self-knowledge. Palestine&rsquo\;s historical precedence and specificit y are forgotten\, Palestinian American literature&rsquo\;s autonomy is f oreclosed\, or the Palestinian Diaspora is demoted to a &ldquo\;problem& rdquo\; for Jews. Can Palestinian American literature speak in its own t erms?\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi-palestinia namericanlit/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Benjamin Schrei er, Professor of English and Jewish Studies

Though “Palestin e”—as place, national aspiration, conflict, refugee crisis, and/or figure for political-cultural investments—stands at the ins titutional origin of the fields of Arab American literature in particula r and Arab American studies more generally, Palestinian American literat ure itself has so far mostly failed to become a discrete object of disci plinary study. Palestinian American authors have by no means been ignore d, but they are rarely analyzed outside other, subordinating frameworks. This has limited opportunities to critically examine mechanisms of iden tity- and institution-formation. An emergent archive, which might otherw ise support a dynamic field of dedicated literary scholarship, instead f requently suffers overdetermination. It’s regularly merged into Ar ab American literature, itself a composite category representing a patch work of histories, which reveals much about U.S. cultural politics, but less about Palestinian specificity. Sometimes it’s relegated to Mi ddle East studies, either considered other than unproblematically &ldquo ;American” or disciplinarily subsumed under the non-literary metho dologies that predominate there. Or it gets studied in an auxiliary rela tionship to Israel politics, Jewish identification, or Jewish American l iterature, subject to a dominant Jewish studies approach I call “Z ionist” for its colonization of anything related to Israel for the purposes of Jewish self-knowledge. Palestine’s historical precede nce and specificity are forgotten, Palestinian American literature&rsquo ;s autonomy is foreclosed, or the Palestinian Diaspora is demoted to a & ldquo;problem” for Jews. Can Palestinian American literature speak in its own terms?

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ hi-palestinianamericanlit/

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