The Assocation for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Third Biennial Conference
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan
2-5 June, 1999
PANEL PROPOSAL: WHEN A SENSE OF PLACE IS A SENSE OF MOTION: RETHINKING THE
POETICS AND POLITICS OF PLACE
In what ways might we learn to use unsettling or restlessness to make a home
or construct a sense of place? Ecocriticism has cultivated a language for
talking about place that relies on ideas such as "digging in" and "slow
revelation" and "a lifetime of work." The field appears less adept (or just
doesn't have the language for) speaking to movement, to a lifetime of
learning more than one place, to perambulatory or migratory knowledge or
ways of knowing, and their kind of intimacy, memory, viability. I am looking
for theoretical / philosophical / literary alternatives (or challenges) to
the idea that "staying put" is a "better" or "more viable" form / method of
knowing / knowledge. Discussions by (or about) poets, novelists or essayists
who use movement or unsettling to make a home or construct a sense of place
are especially welcome.
PLEASE SEND 1-2 PAGE PROPOSALS BY JANUARY 10th to
Mark C. Long
Department of English
Keene State College
229 Main Street
Keene, NH 03435
mlong@keene.edu
FAX 603 358 2773
PH 603 358 2695
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