AREA CALL FOR PAPERS:
Latin American soap operas/telenovelas.
Mexico Meeting of the Popular Culture Association
in Conjunction with the 5th Annual Congress, UDLA
October 18 - 21, 2001
By their very nature, part-issued narratives can be claimed to infiltrate the
daily lives of their audiences more thoroughly than any other narrative form;
acknowledging their cultural power, studies of the soap opera helped to
pioneer cultural studies in the UK and ethnography in the US. Now, global
dominance of the soap market has shifted to the telenovelas produced across
Latin America. What does this shift mean for the future of televised serials
and their audiences? How are telenovelas produced and consumed, both in
their countries of origin and abroad? Papers and panels analyzing the soap
opera/telenovela from a wide range of perspectives are encouraged; papers
might explore the narrative, performative, cultural, social, economic, or
political implications of this form. Global, interdisciplinary, and
international perspectives are especially encouraged.
Because of the location of the conference, panels and papers about Mexican
telenovelas will be of particular interest, but discussions of soap
operas/telenovelas from all South and Central American countries are
welcomed, as are comparative readings of US and Latin American serials, the
"reverse imperialism" represented by the dominance of telenovelas worldwide,
and the larger repercussions of the shift from British and American soap
opera to the Latin American telenovela. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary
approaches are of special interest; a range of theoretical approaches will be
accepted.
Papers and/or panels can focus on themes such as those listed below (but are
not limited to those themes):
Ø Historical development of the soap opera/telenovela
Ø Historical, national, or cultural perspectives within the telenovela
Ø The history and development of the Mexican telenovela
Ø The local versus the global: does the telenovela made for export lose its
national specificity?
Ø Televisual constructions of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality; of race
and ethnicity; of class; of nationalisms
Ø Soap opera imperialism
Ø Telenovelas in the U.S. market
Ø The postcolonial serial
Ø Telenovelas and social movements
Ø Ethnographies and other approaches to audience studies
Ø Comparative/cross-cultural examination of soap operas/telenovelas
Ø Public attitudes towards soaps/telenovelas
Ø Telenovelas for a new millennium
Please send a typed abstract of 150-250 words, in English or Spanish. Provide
the name and academic title of each presenter and give the name and complete
address of the main presenter. Include the telephone number, fax number, and
e-mail address of the main author. E-mailed or faxed proposals are
preferred; submission by normal snail mail is NOT encouraged.
Deadline for proposals is June 15, 2001. Exhibits, displays, poster sessions
are also invited. This Area is a strand within the Popular Culture
Association meeting in Puebla, Mexico. For full information about the
conference, check the conference web site: www.udlap.mx/congress
This meeting is one of the international activities of the national Popular
Culture Association and the Program Chair is Peter Rollins, [log in to unmask]
PLEASE CONTACT AREA CHAIR:
Jennifer Hayward [log in to unmask]
(330) 263-2397; fax (330) 231-7013
College of Wooster
Wooster, OH 44691
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