Session Details

Friday, 07 January

192. Translating Codes across Cultures

8:30–9:45 a.m., 404A, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on West Asian Languages and Literatures

Presiding: Samy Swayd, San Diego State Univ.

1. “Translating Modes of Resistance in Munif’s Cities of Salt,” Tracy Lassiter, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania

2. “Tsa Ashum (Initiation) into the Eggon Masquerade Society as Translation and Pedagogy,” Reuben Embu, Univ. of Jos

3. “Transcultural Texts and Misspeaking That Shapes History; or, From the Margins of the Globe?” Kamala Platt, Meadowlark Center

Respondent: Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela, Univ. of Houston

For abstracts, write to kamalap@earthlink.net.

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