Social Anthropology Seminar - Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata - ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’
| Dates: | 29 November 2021 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata |
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Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata
‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’
From 2010 to 2019, the anthropologist Samuli Schielke and the novelist Mukhtar Saad Shehata conducted fieldwork among writers and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt’s second city. Literary writing, they argue, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. This also allows for literary imagination to be part and parcel of social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.
On line and in the 2nd Floor Boardroom in the Arthur Lewis Building on Monday the 29th of November 2021
Please register https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcoc-2qqD4pGdFnZT7j6-YHMpl4tAABNI3M
Time 16:15 to 17:45pm
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Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata
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