LANCASTER, Pa. - Margaret Litvin of Yale University, will discuss "Shall We Be or Not Be? Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Anxieties of Arab Nationalism" on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 4:30 p.m. in Franklin & Marshall's Stahr Auditorium in Stager Hall.
The talk, sponsored by the Comparative Literary Studies Program, is free and open to the public. The talk will focus on the reception of Shakespeare in Arabic speaking countries. Litvin is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in humanities at Yale University. Her work focuses on contemporary Arab drama and public culture.
Her book manuscript, "Hamlet’s Arab Journey," examines how Arab polemicists, critics, and playwrights in the postcolonial period have received and deployed Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She argues that their interpretations developed in dialogue with a "global kaleidoscope" of sources and models, including many from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. Litvin's current research explores the cultural contacts between Arab intellectuals and their Eastern Bloc counterparts from 1956 to 1990. She holds a Ph.D. in social thought from the University of Chicago (2006) and a B.A. in humanities from Yale. -30- |
