Vignettes of Afro-Asia, 1962
After-Hours Routes and Intertextual Afterlives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327350 |
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| Authors | Hala Halim (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-95 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-12185582 |
| OpenAlex | W7131669377 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The Second Afro-Asian Writers’ Conference, which convened in Cairo in 1962 and took place amid a sea change in the Third World, was most significant in securing specifically the literary arm of the Afro-Asian movement. This essay fashions two vignettes that place center stage two writers who participated, Kateb Yacine and Nâzım Hikmet, each representing an issue that mobilized fellow Afro-Asian intellectuals and freedom fighters. In relation to these two dramatis personae, the essay trains attention on interventions in conference halls as much as in impromptu after-hours encounters to elicit imaginaries of shared heritage, tensions between liberation-period positions, and the travel of intertextual tropes of solidarity past these writers’ passage through Cairo. Guarding against attributing the solidarities of the period to a mere top-down manifestation of institutional patronage, the essay extricates from the vignettes features of something in the nature of an Afro-Asian commune of letters
Aunt · Impromptu · Period (music · Realm · Relation (database · Solidarity · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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