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Autobiography in the Muslim World (ISLA 581) Autobiography in the Muslim World (ISLA 581) Fall 2013 Location: McTavish 3438, Room 4 Times: Fridays 12.35 to 2.25 Professor: Prashant Keshavmurthy Institute of Islamic Studies Office 311, Morrice Hall Office hour: Thursday 12.00 – 1.00 or by appointment McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore, all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/ for more information). L'université McGill attache une haute importance à l’honnêteté académique. Il incombe par conséquent à tous les étudiants de comprendre ce que l'on entend par tricherie, plagiat et autres infractions académiques, ainsi que les conséquences que peuvent avoir de telles actions, selon le Code de conduite de l'étudiant et des procédures disciplinaires (pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez consulter le site www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/). In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded. Conformément à la Charte des droits de l’étudiant de l’Université McGill, chaque étudiant a le droit de soumettre en français ou en anglais tout travail écrit devant être noté (sauf dans le cas des cours dont l’un des objets est la maîtrise d’une langue). Description: In this course we will read and open up for discussion what it has meant in different times and spaces in the Muslim world for the self to 1 write its own life. This will entail a focus on written self-representations ranging from medieval Arabic autobiographies, the early modern diary of a Timurid prince to a contemporary memoir of growing up in Indian administered Kashmir. We will read these texts with an attention to such issues as whether the act of writing plays a constitutive or representative role in the telling of a life, whether the self in question is conceived of as unique or as transpersonal, questions of whether and how the self in question is gendered, of the articulations of individual and public memory and the related one of whether the writing self is unique or metonymic of a group. This is not intended as an exhaustive list of orienting questions, only a suggestive one. At times we will supplement the listed autobiographies with scholarly and theoretical studies of autobiography and selfhood. Students are welcome to devise, in consultation with the instructor, their own topics for class discussions as well as for the final paper. Method of Evaluation: 25% of the final grade will depend on your participation in class discussions, including attendance. A further 25% will be based on a 20 to 25 minute class presentation on one of the prescribed texts. You are welcome to make more than one presentation. The remaining 50% will be assigned on the basis of your final paper. 2 Texts to be purchased: If you do not already possess the following titles, you will need to buy them from the McGill University bookstore: 1. Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition; ed. Dwight F. Reynolds 2. Babur, Baburnama; trans. Wheeler Thackston 3. Zikr-e Mir: the autobiography of an eighteenth century Mughal poet; trans. C.M. Naim 4. Taha Hussein, The Days 5. Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah 6. Fawaz Turki, The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile 7. Basharat Peer, Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love and War in his Homeland. The remaining texts will be sent to you as PDF files. Weekly readings Weeks 1 and 2: Selections from Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition; ed. Dwight F. Reynolds (University of California Press, 2001) Weeks 3 and 4: Selections from Babur, Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor; trans. Wheeler M. Thackston (Modern Library, 2002) 3 Weeks 5 and 6: Zikr-i Mir: the autobiography of the eighteenth century Mughal poet Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir; trans. C.M. Naim (Oxford University Press, USA, 2002) Week 7: Taha Hussein, An Egyptian Childhood from The Days (American University of Cairo Press, 2006) Weeks 8 and 9: Jalal al-Ahmad, Lost in the Crowd; trans. John Green (Three Continents Press, 1985) Weeks 10 and 11: Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah: a Memoir of a Palestinian Refugee; trans. Ahdaf Soueif (Anchor, 2003) Weeks 12 and 13: Fawaz Turki, The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile (Monthly Review Press, 1972) Week 14: Basharat Peer, Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love and War in his Homeland (Scribner, 2010). 4 Two supplementary bibliographies: 1) More auotobiographies from the Muslim world: Naser Khosrow, Safar Nameh Trans. W. M. Thackston (New York: Bibliotheca Persica, 1986). Gulbadan Begum, Humayunnama,” in Three Memoirs Of Humayun (Bibliotheca Iranica, Intellectual Traditions Series, 2009), 1-68. Trans. W. M. Thackston. Online but inferior edition: Humāyūn-Nama: The History of Humāyūn. Trans. Annette S. Beveridge (New Delhi: Goodword, 2001 [1902]); http://archive.org/details/historyofhumayun00gulbrich Taj al-Saltanah, Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity, 1884-1914, Trans. Anna Vanzan and Amin Neshati; Ed. Abbas Amanat (Washington, DC: Mage Publishers, 1993). Bibi Khanum Astarabadi, “The Vices of Men,” in The Education of Women and The Vices of Men: Two Qajar Tracts. Trans. Hasan Javadi and Willem Floor (Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2010). Sadriddin Aini, The Sands of Oxus: Boyhood Reminiscences of Sadriddin Aini Trans. John R. Perry and Rachel Lehr (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, Bibliotheca Iranica, 1998). Muhammad ʻAli Jamalzadah, Isfahan is Half the World: Memories of a Persian Boyhood (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983). Said Sayrafiezadeh, When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood (New York: Penguin, 2009). Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: a Poet’s Autobiography (Greywolf Press, 1990). 5 2) Scholarship on autobiographies from the Muslim world: Stephen F. Dale, The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483 - 1530). Rebecca Gould, ‘How Gulbadan Remembered: the Book of Humayun as an Act of Representation’, Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011, vol. 6. Marcia K. Hermansen, ‘Introduction to the Study of Dreams and Visions in Islam’, Religion, Vol. 27,1997, pp. 1–5. A. Azfar Moin, ‘Peering Through the Cracks in the Baburnama: the Textured Lives of Mughal Sovereigns’, Indian Economic Social History Review 2012 49: 493 Arab Women’s Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing, Nawar Al- Hassan Golley, ed. (Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2007). Al-Hassan Golley, Nawar. Reading Arab Women’s Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells Her Story (Austin: Texas UP, 2003). Many Ways of Speaking about the Self: Middle Eastern Ego-documents in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (14th-20th Century), Ralf Elger and Yavuz Köse, eds. (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010). Barbara Stocker-Parnian, “An Unusually Long Way to the Kaaba: Reflexions in the Safarna ma-ye Makka of Mehdi qoli Hedayat,” 103-116. Women’s Autobiographies in Contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi, ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1990). Writing the Self: Autobiographical Writing in Modern Arabic Literature, Robin Ostle, Stefan Wild, eds. (London: Saqi Books, 1998). 6 Hülya Adak, “Suffragettes of the empire, daughters of the republic: women auto/biographers narrate national history (1918-1935)”, New Perspectives on Turkey: Special Issue on Literature and the Nation, No.36, May 2007, 27- 51. --------------, https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/289/1/3011800000903.pdf --------------, “An epic for peace (Introduction to Halide Edib’s Memoirs)”, Memoirs of Halidé Edib, Istanbul: Gorgias Press, 2004, pp. 5-28. Margot Badran, Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, Huda Shaarawi as translator, editor, and introducer, London: Virago, 1986. --------------------, “Expressing Feminism and Nationalism in Autobiography: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Educator”, Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, eds., De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. Afshan Bokhari, Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: Jahan Ara Begum’s (1614-1681) Patronage, Piety and Self-Fashioning in 17th C. Mughal India, London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming (February 2012). Marilyn Booth, “‘A’isha ‘Ismat bint Isma’il Taymur” and “Zaynab Fawwaz al-‘Amili” in Roger Allen (ed.), Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1850- 1950, Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 93-8, 366-76. Critical Feminist Biography, Special Double Issue of the Journal of Women’s History (edited with Antoinette Burton), 21: 3 and 4 (2009). ---------------,“Who Gets to Become the Liberal Subject? Ventriloquized Memoirs and the Individual in 1920s Egypt” in Christoph Schumann (ed.), Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean, Late 19th Century until the 1960s, Leiden: Brill, 2008, pp. 267-92. 7 --------------,“From the Horse’s Rump and the Whorehouse Keyhole: Ventriloquized Memoirs as Political Voice in 1920s Egypt,” Maghreb Review 32:2-3 (2007): 233-61. -------------,“Quietly Author(iz)ing Community: Biography as an Autobiography of Syrian Women in Egypt,” L’Homme: Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 14. Jg. Heft 2 (2003): 280-97. -------------,“‘She Herself was the Ultimate Rule’: Arab
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