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SUMMARY:The Burdens of Pulp Fiction in the Arab Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:Faculty & Fellows Colloquium “I don’t want to give you a new story of Sindbad:” The Burdens of Pulp Fiction in the Arab Enlightenment Rebecca Johnson\, English Rebecca Johnson is College Fellow in the department of English and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Her research focuses on the history and theory of the novel in Arabic and English\, the literature of the nineteenth-century period known as the Nahda\, and literary orientalism and occidentalism. Her wider interests include pre-modern Arabic prose genres\, cosmopolitanism\, and the poetics and politics of translation. She has been fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies\, the Social Science Research Council\, the Council for Library and Information Resources\, and the Fulbright Foundation. She published translations of Arabic literature\, including a translation of Sinan Antoon's I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody. 
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