Literary Aesthetics of Relation and Creolization in the Indian Ocean Chair: Firat Oruc (Georgetown University, Qatar)
Michelle Decker (Scripps College): “Al-Inkishafi,” Swahili Poetic Form, and the Indian Ocean Imaginary Emmanuel Bruno Jean-Francois (Pennsylvania State University): Creolized Geographies, Entangled Histories: The Mascarene Region and the Intersecting Stories of the Indian Ocean World Mervat Hatem (Howard University): Literary Construction of the Indian Ocean for the Reform of Dynastic States/Communities vs. the Colonial Construction of Modern National Communities in `A’isha Taymur’s Work of Fiction Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King’s College, London): Transoceanic Circularities and Creole Indias: Ari Gautier’s Pondicherry Novels Neelofer Qadir (University of North Carolina, Greensboro): Spectral Labor
