Muslim Women's Popular Fiction

“你最后一次听到穆斯林女性没有滤镜地为自己说话是什么时候？或者在白人的注视之外？以她自己的方式？或者在媒体和政府围绕我们建立的叙事之外？”(玛丽亚姆·汗，《简介》，It Not About the Burqa，第1页)。该倡议聚焦于被认为“受欢迎”而不是“文学”的女性的写作，从一系列既定的批评学科角度和跨语言，接触到未被充分研究的流行文本和体裁文本(包括浪漫、女子文学、漫画、漫画小说、侦探小说、青年成人小说、奇幻小说、自传、回忆录和科幻小说)。该项目感兴趣的是通过对出版商和编辑的关注，更密切地关注这部作品及其创作背景。该项目询问：*流派如何充当穆斯林女性写作的“过滤器”？*流行和体裁小说为挑战穆斯林女性声音的主导“过滤器”提供了哪些机会？*流行小说出版和制作模式提供了哪些背景和压力？*穆斯林女性作家如何参与和改变现有的叙事和体裁形式？这些专业领域以前从未被实质性地结合在一起--这是一个收集不同专业知识的机会。并将全球学者网络聚集在一起，讨论并编写关于这一主题的重点工作。通过将通俗小说、出版和流派专家与穆斯林妇女写作方面的知名研究人员聚集在一起，这个网络项目旨在产生新的和亟需的合作干预措施，并为未来的研究建立一个关键平台。在第一年，指导委员会将发展5个地方‘节点’，每个节点突出一个特定的专业领域。通过面对面或在线活动，每个节点将侧重于在更当地发展学术网络，在当地社区产生影响，并作为促进当地学者和散居海外的流行流派学者之间对话的平台。1.翻译--由Peter Cherry博士领导：与翻译者、出版商代表一起举办关于翻译土耳其和阿拉伯流行小说的讲习班；与受邀的学者、记者和演员讨论土耳其肥皂剧在土耳其国内外的受欢迎程度；与学习世界文学、当代世界小说中的移民和翻译研究的学生合作。2.教育--由艾米·伯杰博士领导与当地教育伙伴、国家扫盲信托基金、政策制定者共同举办讲习班；与学生合作编写穆斯林妇女流行小说三年级单元。文学与非殖民性--由Aroosa Kanwall博士领导举办了一次讲习班，并与翻译人员、研究人员、教育工作者和学生就土著文学传统和当代穆斯林妇女的英语流派写作进行了在线讨论。4.文字和图像-由Esra Santesso博士领导--与漫画小说家和漫画家(可能是Ozge Samanci、Huda Fahmy、Deena Mohamed、Leila Abdelrazaq)、漫画学者举办的关于流行视觉流派和伊斯兰女权主义的研讨会。5.流动--由Lucinda Newns博士领导与学者和作家共同举办的讲习班，讨论通俗小说和流派小说作品如何跨越国界，并使移民、土著、少数族裔和非殖民主义的观点出现在全球文学市场上。在第二年，该网络将主办一次国际会议，将来自当地节点和其他地方的研究人员聚集在一起，鼓励跨语言、学科和流派的合作。会议方案将包括研究人员会见以前确定的研究伙伴的预定时间，以及网络成员可以规划未来合作的结构化空间和讲习班(例如，为编辑的书籍编写共同撰写的文章，或规划未来的资金投标)。

"When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? Or outside the white gaze? On her own terms? Or outside the narrative built around us by the media and governments?" (Mariam Khan, 'Introduction', It's Not About the Burqa, p. 1).Focusing on writing by women deemed 'popular' rather than 'literary', the initiative engages with under-studied popular and genre texts (including romance, chick lit, comics, graphic novels, detective fiction, Young Adult, fantasy, autobiography, memoir, and science fiction) from a range of established critical disciplinary perspectives and across languages. The project is interested in looking more closely at this writing alongside its production context through a focus on publishers and editors.The project asks:* How does genre act as a 'filter' for Muslim women's writing? * What opportunities do popular and genre fiction provide for challenging the dominant 'filters' on Muslim women's voices? * What contexts and pressures do popular fiction publishing and production models provide? * How are Muslim women authors engaging with and transforming established narrative and genre forms?These areas of expertise have not been brought together substantially before - this is an opportunity to gather disparate expertise and bring together a global network of scholars to discuss and produce focused work on this topic. By bringing together experts on popular fiction, publishing and genre, with established researchers of Muslim women's writing, this networking project aims to produce new and much-needed collaborative interventions and establish a critical platform for future research.In the first year, the steering committee will develop 5 local 'nodes', each highlighting an area of particular expertise. Through in-person or online events, each node will focus on developing scholarly networks more locally, creating local community impact, and work as platforms for facilitating a dialogue between local and diasporic scholars of popular genre. 1. Translation - led by Dr Peter CherryA workshop on translation of Turkish and Arabic popular fiction with translators, representatives from publishers; a discussion on Turkish soap operas' popularity within Turkey and abroad with invited academics, journalists and actors; collaboration with students taking modules on world literature, migration in contemporary world fiction and translation studies. 2. Education - led by Dr Amy BurgeA workshop with local educational partners, National Literacy Trust, policymakers; collaboration with students on third-year module Muslim Women's Popular Fiction.3. Literature and Decoloniality - led by Dr Aroosa KanwalA workshop and online discussion with translators, researchers, educators and students on indigenous literary traditions and contemporary Muslim women's Anglophone genre writing. 4. Text and Image - led by Dr Esra SantessoA workshop with graphic novelists and cartoonists (potentially Ozge Samanci, Huda Fahmy, Deena Mohamed, Leila Abdelrazaq), comics scholars, on popular visual genres and Islamic feminism. 5. Mobilities - led by Dr Lucinda NewnsA workshop with academics and authors about how works of popular and genre fiction have travelled across borders and enabled migrant, indigenous, minority ethnic and decolonial perspectives to emerge in the global literary marketplace. In the second year, the network will host an international conference to bring together researchers from local nodes and elsewhere, encouraging collaboration across languages, disciplines and genres. The conference programme will include scheduled time for researchers to meet previously identified research partners and structured space and workshops in which network members can plan for future collaboration (for example, the preparation of co-authored articles for the edited book, or planning for future funding bids).