Comparative Visions of Modernity in West Asia and the Middle East

Seeking abstracts addressing the link between modernity and vision in Middle Eastern-West Asian literatures; the politics and aesthetics of vision-blindness as a modern regime/discourse of power; temporality; secularization-spiritualism; fictionality; body politics. 250-word abstracts + bio.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 22 March 2024

Mehtap Ozdemir, Emory University (mozdemir.lit@gmail.com )