James City County Human Services Building, 5249 Olde Towne Road
Narratives of Muslim Women Living in the West, presented by Prof. Saama Abdurraqib. Professor Abdurraqib has a doctorate in English from UW-Madison and is currently working on a project that looks at the social and discursive co-optation of narratives by Muslim women in the West. Her talk focuses on the fraught personal negotiations of post-9/11 Muslim women writers in their attempts to construct believable, honest protagonists that are both female and Muslim in the face of increasing demands by Western readerships for “testimonial witnesses”. For more information check https://www.facebook.com/AllTogetherWilliamsburg.