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SUMMARY:Hoda El Shakry: “Exorcizing Islam and the Nation in Abdelwahab Me
 ddeb’s Talismano”
DESCRIPTION:NORTH CAROLINA\n\nHoda El Shakry: “Exorcizing Islam and the N
 ation in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Talismano”\n\nMarch 23 | 4:00 pm\nPresent
 ed by the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civi
 lizations at UNC Chapel Hill\n\n\n\n\nTunisian novelist\, Islamic scholar\
 , art historian\, and cultural critic Abdelwahab Meddeb first published hi
 s wildly experimental novel “Talismano” in Paris in 1979.  The story 
 presciently traces the evolution of a popular rebellion as it winds its wa
 y through the cityscape of Tunis’ medina bearing a carnivalesque retinue
  of prophets\, artisans\, sorceresses\, alchemists and prostitutes.  More
  crucially\, the novel performs the concept of médiner – a term coine
 d by Meddeb to signifier the meditative act of wandering through the medin
 a – in order to interrogate the legitimacy of the modern nation-state. 
  As it meanders through the region’s diverse textual and topographic lan
 dscapes\, the novel situates Tunisia’s performance of national identity 
 within both Mediterranean and Arabo-Islamic mythologies of origin.  Favor
 ing nomadic genealogies over sedentary narratives of origin\, “Talismano
 ” further disrupts the structural cohesion of the self\, the symbolic or
 der of language\, and the bifurcation between secular and religious discur
 sive traditions.\n\nSponsors: Arabic Program at the Department of Asian st
 udies\, African Studies Center\, Carolina Center for the Study of the Midd
 le East and Muslim Civilizations\, Center for Global Initiatives\, Duke-UN
 C Consortium for Middle East Studies\, Center for Global Initiatives\, Rom
 ance Studies\n\n\n\n\n
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