[ecrea] CFP: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures

CALL FOR PAPERS

Allah n'est pas obligé:The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures

SFPS Postgraduate Study Day

University of Stirling,

20 June 2013





>From France to West Africa and farther afield in the Francophone 
world, Islam is a dominant force in the universe that writers, 
filmmakers and other social and cultural actors hail from and often turn 
to for critical inspiration. It has played a major role in the history 
of this world before, during and after the colonial period. However, the 
study of Islam has received insufficient attention in Francophone 
postcolonial and cultural studies. Over a decade into the twenty-first 
century, Islam is still heavily studied in its disciplinary stronghold 
of area studies but rarely in the postcolonial zones of the arts and the 
humanities. When one considers its central position in many Francophone 
cultures and the insufficient attention it has received in postcolonial 
studies, Islam can thus be seen as a very promising research site for 
new critical perspectives on cultural production in and beyond the 
Francophone world.



The next postgraduate study day of the Society for Francophone 
Postcolonial Studies (SFPS) will take place at the University of 
Stirling on 20 June 2013. It aims to bring together postgraduate 
researchers and attending scholars in the humanities and the social 
sciences to reflect on the location of Islam in Francophone cultures. 
Potential themes might include but are not limited to:



?      Representations of pre-colonial Islam

?      Islam in colonial discourse

?      Islam and postcolonialism

?      Islam in Francophone literature, cinema, mass media, and arts

?      Diasporic and Transatlantic Islam

?      Islam Francais? Islam laïque?

?      Islam and immigration

?      Political Islam

?      Francophone responses to ‘9/11’

?      Islam in West Africa, the Francophone Caribbean and the Maghreb

?      Islam in French and Francophone Studies







Proposals of 250 words in English or French accompanied by a short 
biography to be sent to (jamal.bahmad /at/ stir.ac.uk) by 15 March 2013.




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