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East-West Literary Relations

Session 4 - Saturday 3:00-4:30pm
Ching Hall 250
Presiding Officer: 
Mike Sugimoto
  1. Too Sexy for the Veil? (Post?)terrorist Islam in Contemporary Popular Fiction. Katja Hawlitschka, Ocean County College

    This paper will explore representations of Islam in contemporary popular literature, in order to ask whether recent images of Islam have moved beyond Orientalism. Does a questioning of binary thinking alone constitute progress, or is Islam becoming a new Western commodity?

  2. Dissolving Language: Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Beckett's Not I. Jake Khoury, Virginia Commonwealth University

    Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses highlights the impossibility of taking verbal control of the self and of situating oneself in language. Rushdie’s allusion to Samuel Beckett’s Not I shows that voices in language dissolve stable notions of self and prevents singular authorship of the self.

  3. Russian Discovery of Japan through America: A Case of Complex East-West Literary Relationship. Linda Galvane, Osaka University

    The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a case of the construction of “Japan” by a Russian writer using an American text and to show the intertextual nature of the representation of the national.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed