Hoda started following the work of Maria Blaim, University of Rostock, Graduate School "Cultural Encounter and Discourses of Scholarship".
Hoda started following the work of 2 people.
Hoda started following the work of Etienne Balibar, University of California, Irvine, French and Italian.
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Student, Comparative Literature
Doctoral Candidate
About
My research explores the confluence of Modern Arab Literature with Islamic Thought. My current scholarship examines twentieth century Arabophone and Francophone literature of the Maghreb - specifically Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The central question animating my project is how these authors employ Qur’anic discourse in order to complicate, nuance or challenge the grand historical narratives of the nation, modernity and postcoloniality. In this regard, I explore how these works represent Islam in relation to both colonial and nationalist ideologies. I am interested in the literary integration of the Qur’an as both a discourse and textual object, as well as the invocation of religious praxis. My research posits that such works stage a political, aesthetic and historiographic intervention into the divide between ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ discourses.
