!!!!!!!!!! FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS !!!!!!!!!!!!

Please submit abstracts or conference-length papers by Friday, January

19, 1996.  We prefer e-mail submissions, or an e-mail note preceding a

regular mail submission (see addresses at the bottom of this post).

 

REQUESTING SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2ND ANNUAL GRAD STUDENT CONFERENCE AT

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, RALEIGH, NC

 

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CULTURAL CARTOGRAPHIES:SURVEYING THE POSTCOLONIAL BODY

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Questions concerning the "body" are central to postcolonial inquiry.

What is the relationship between the individual body and the body

politic?  Between identity and its embodiment?  Between the speaking

subject and dominant discourse?  By surveying film, literature, and other

cultural texts, _Cultural Cartographies_ seeks to identify and explore

the racialization and sexualization of postcolonial bodies.  This

conference will attempt to chart how textuality, adornment, violence, and

subjectivity affect the construction and comprehension of personal and

political identity in the context of colonial and postcolonial power

dynamics.

 

We welcome papers, creative manuscripts, and panel proposals that exhibit

a variety of critical and artistic engagements with postcolonial

discourse.  Submissions may be specific to national or regional

literature, to a single author or theorist, or they may treat broader

subjects such as new definitions of genre and gender, eroticism vs.

pornography, literary sexuality, as well as specific issues of national

and colonial representation.

 

The conference will feature Chris Eyre, a Native American filmmaker, who

will screen his latest project, and Michael Valdez Moses, author of _The

Novel and the Globalization of Culture_, who will speak on the field of

postcolonial studies.  In addition, a $100 prize for a selected paper

will be awarded, sponsored by _Postmodern Culture_ and _J'ouvert: a

journal of postcolonial studies_.

 

Please send or e-mail a detailed 1-2 page abstract to:

 

Mike Malouf  ([log in to unmask])

or for creative submisions:

Matt Kreib   ([log in to unmask])

 

English Department

Tompkins Hall, Box 8105

North Carolina State University

Raleigh   NC   27695-8105

 

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