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Book Talk with Annette Damayanti Lienau: Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter- Imperial Literature

April 22 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

In partnership with the UNC Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies and the UNC African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center is pleased to sponsor a book talk by Prof. Annette Damayanti Lienau of Harvard University on her new monograph, Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literature.

Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic’s global position as the basis for comparing cultural and literary histories in countries separated by vast distances. By tracing controversies over the use of Arabic in three countries with distinct colonial legacies, Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal, the book presents a new approach to the study of postcolonial literatures, anticolonial nationalisms, and the global circulation of pluralist ideas.

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Date:
April 22
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium
301 Pittsboro St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
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