الشتاء ٢٠٢٢، القاهرةمقرر قصير

The Politics of Language and Alphabets: History, Power, and Community

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الدورة: الشتاء ٢٠٢٢، القاهرة
المدة: ٨ أسابيع
طريقة الحضور: عبر الإنترنت
لغة التدريس: الإنجليزية

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عن المقرر

What lies behind the languages and alphabets we use? Although they may appear as mundane and neutral means of communication, languages and scripts have functioned, historically and today, as powerful social, cultural, and political tools. Since the nineteenth century, imperialist ventures used languages as instruments of control and domination, while nationalist politicians and activists increasingly saw them as means of collective identification and anticolonial resistance. Meanwhile, local and diasporic communities put forth alternative language ideologies that challenged dominant notions of language “purity,” mother tongue, and the connection of language and national identity, fostering instead multilingualism, local connections, or forms of international alliance. This course examines some of the key ideas about language and language practices that emerged from the nineteenth century to today. Each week will focus on a case study, which we will “read with” a theoretical, artistic, or literary resource. The case studies are organized in chronological order and include, for example, the 1928 Turkish alphabet reform, post-colonial Arabization in North Africa, twentieth-century political activism around regional languages in India, and the relation between English, the Latin script, and new technologies today. The accompanying resources will include works of philosophy, art, pedagogy, and literature.

مَن يقدّم المقرر

Olga Verlato is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her research explores the history of language ideology and multilingualism in modern Egypt, at the intersection of imperialism, Mediterranean migration, and nationalist politics. She has also written about early modern Arabic printing in the Italian peninsula during the Renaissance, social infrastructures and mobility in the nineteenth century through the study of Egyptian popular songs, and the history of Italian schools in Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century.

مسار المقرر

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- Language and identityPrompt.
- “Thou Dost Not, and Shalt Not, Speak My Language”Abdelfattah Kilito. In Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (Syracuse University Press, 2008): 85-94.
Case study: Language and colonialism
- Competing, Overlapping, and Contradictory Agendas: Egyptian Education under British Occupation, 1882-1922Mona Russell. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 21.1 (2001): 50-60.
- Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, anti-British Discourse, and European Public Opinion, 1885-1910: The Case of Mustafa Kamil and Ya'qub Sannu'Ziad Fahmy. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28.1 (2008): 170-183.
- That Alexandria (trailer)Sherif Fathy Salem. Reading with.
Case study: The Turkish language reform
- LanguageHale Yilmaz. In Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey 1923-1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2013): 139-178.
- “Transliterative Tease.”Lecture performance by artist collective Slavs and Tatars. Reading with.
Case study: Linguistic dilemmas
- Language and Ideology in the Maghreb: Francophonie and Other LanguagesAli Alalou. The French Review (2006): 408-421.
- DiglossiaAbdelkebir Khatibi. In Berger, Anne-Emmanuelle, ed. Algeria in Others' Languages (Cornell University Press, 2002): 157-160. Reading with.
Case study: Regional politics and languages in India
- Introduction: A New Emotional Commitment to LanguageLisa Mitchell. In Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue (Indiana University Press, 2009): 1-34.
- Catalan Government Defies Supreme Court Ruling on Teaching More Spanish Language at Schools.El País, November 2021. Reading with.
Case study: Decolonization and the language question in Algeria
- The Battleground of Language and the Changing Discourse of FrancophonieMargaret Majumdar. In Postcoloniality: The French Dimension (Berghahn Books, 2007): 147-173.
- The Burden of EnglishGayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (Harvard University Press, 2012): 35-56. Reading with.
Case study: French, Arabic, and Amazigh/Berber scriptural politics
- Arabic or Latin: Language Contact and Script PracticesDris Soulaimani. Middle East-Topics & Arguments 13 (2019): 13-20.
- Scripts in Motion: Writing as Imperial Technology, Past and PresentLydia Liu. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130.2 (2015): 375-383. Reading with.
Case study: Multilingualism for Foreign Language Teaching
- The Multilingual Turn as a Critical Movement in Education: Assumptions, Challenges and a Need for ReflectionGabriela Sylvia Meier. De Gruyter Mouton, August 2016.
- “Dog Words,”Abdelfattah Kilito, trans. Ziad Elmarsafy. In Bammer, Angelika, ed. Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question (Indiana University Press, 1994): xxi-xxxi. Reading with.