LAST 550

Fall 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 21-Dec 6

Interdisc Seminar Latin Am St

Credit: 4 hours.

Examines the interconnections among research approaches and problems in the field of Latin American and CaribbeanStudies.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: M.A. standing in Latin American and Caribbean Studies or consent of instructor.

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LAST 550 class schedule data for fall 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	50129	Lecture	ADC	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	Location Pending	Hassan, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Arabs and the Americas Section Info: This course offers an introduction to the two parallel traditions of Arab American and Arab Brazilian literature, with a focus on the complex interplay of ethnic minority, national, and transnational identities. Arabs have had a long relationship with the American hemisphere. Twelfth-century geographer al-Idrisi reported that eight Arabs sailed west from Lisbon to discover what lay beyond the “Sea of Darkness” (the Atlantic ocean), and arrived somewhere in South America. Columbus reportedly had a copy of al-Idrisi’s book with him when he embarked on his first voyage in 1492, and he took with him Louis de Torre, a converted Moor, to act as an Arabic interpreter once the expedition reached India. Some of the earliest slave narratives were written in Arabic by literate Muslim captives from West Africa. Large-scale Arab immigration to the Americas began in the late nineteenth century, and since then those immigrants and their descendants have participated in a substantial tradition of minority literature in the two largest countries of the hemisphere, the United States and Brazil. Authors discussed include Ameen Rihani, Diana Abu-Jaber, Mohja Kahf, Susan Abulhawa, Radwan Nassar, Milton Hatoum, Waly Salomão, and Alberto Mussa.