UPDATE: You can now view the recorded session on the MELA YouTube channel.
The MELA Social Justice Committee will host a lecture with Dr. Rachel Schine as part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2020-2021 season, Stories and Silences: Research on Race in the Middle East. The lecture will be on November 19, 2020, at 11AM EST (UTC -5).
Please register for the lecture here: https://bit.ly/MELARSchine
Imagining Africa in Arabic Popular Literature
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Many Arabic epics (siyar sha‘biyya) incorporate an interaction across the Middle East’s frontier with East Africa, though each construct this space and its inhabitants differently. I offer a comparison of Africa as imagined in Sīrat ‘Antar, the most well-known Arabic epic in the region today, and Sīrat al-Amīrah Dhāt al-Himma, Arabic’s longest epic. Both works incorporate a black-skinned protagonist who, regardless of their descent, is perceived by Arab-Muslim society as hailing from the Sub-Saharan “lands of the blacks,” or Bilād al-Sūdān, a common exonym for the region, and their expeditions there are also fraught homecomings. Using these Black-Arab heroes’ stories and the diffuse textual traditions through which they were transmitted, this talk explores Arabic literature’s sense of racial limits and possibilities in view of the histories of diplomacy, migration, and slaving that linked Sub-Saharan Africa with central lands of the medieval Arab-Muslim world.
Rachel Schine holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. She is presently a postdoctoral associate and instructor of Arabic literature and culture at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her research focuses on pre-modern Arabic literature, with interests in orality and storytelling practices, gender/sexuality and race/race-making in popular, poetic, and belletristic genres. Her current book project, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race, explores the origins, literary functions, and social histories of black protagonists in Arabic popular literature, and particularly in the language’s longest epic, Sīrat al-Amīra Dhāt al-Himma. She has published on topics relating to racialization and kinship in Arabic storytelling, as well as on race-conscious pedagogies of The 1001 Nights, or Alf Layla wa-Layla in, among others, the Journal of Arabic Literature and al-‘Usūr al-Wustā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists.