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Emerging Scholars Summer Seminar: Dr. Ahmed Honeini on Tennessee Williams

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Emerging Scholars Summer Seminar

I Am a Fugitive: Homes, Families, and Exiles in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire

Dr. Ahmed Honeini

Please join us for our ESO Summer Seminar where Dr. Ahmed Honeini will discuss his new book, Tennessee Williams’s America (Routledge 2025), the first full-length study of homes, families, and familial exile in the plays of Tennessee Williams. This talk, drawn from the book’s introduction, examines Williams’s most famous plays: his first masterwork, the autobiographical The Glass Menagerie, and his magnum opus, the tragic A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Ahmed Honeini is an Honorary Research Associate in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound (2021) and Tennessee Williams’s America: Homes, Families, Exiles (2025). He is the founder of the Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network and currently the co-Associate Editor of the Journal of American Studies. He is currently in the early stages of work on his third monograph, tentatively titled James Baldwin, Drama, and the Politics of Sacrifice. Dr. Honeini’s book, Tennessee Williams’s America is the first full-length study of homes, families, and familial exile in the plays of Tennessee Williams. The central argument of this book that Williams’s vision of American life in his plays is predicated upon challenging the traditional idea of the home and family. Throughout his plays, the patriarchal space of the American home and family is shown to victimize and oppress two of society’s most marginalized groups: women and queer people; in Williams’s plays, the experiences of one group often mirror and intersect with those of the other. In its extended, full-length treatment of homes, families, and familial exiles in his theatrical output, this book adds a new perspective to Williams scholarship by examining the desperate and, at times, futile search for love, relationality, and belonging that his marginalized and alienated characters frequently pursue in alternative avenues of existence.