This project focuses on the study of literatures that have been shaped by territorial and linguistic politics, colonialism, military domination and gross human rights violations.
The series aims to bring together American scholars and writers of Middle Eastern and North African descent with U.S. based writers of color whose work engages with the following themes: memory, space/place, counter-mapping, oral history, documentation, censorship, colonialism, queerness, racism, occupation, terrorism, language preservation, genocide, extinction, and nationalism/statelessness.
The broader objective of the series is to grapple with the constructed nature of history and to reimagine American and global history from the position of suppressed voices; and, to examine the relationships between ethics, aesthetics and literature by discussing how texts by writers of color that are sites of alternative knowledge production can innovate the technology of the novel and the poem in the process of responding to systemic violence. In doing so, we aim to theorize new modes of contemporary literary resistance across national borders, nurture scholars and writers of color, and cultivate intersectional coalition building.
To learn more, visit: https://litofexile.nd.edu
Image credit: Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance, University of Notre Dame, N.D.
