CALL FOR PAPERS for a panel on TRAVEL WRITING AT THE END OF EMPIRE:
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH TRAVEL WRITING for the 9th Annual Central New York
Conference on Language and Literature at Cortland College, State
University of New York, to be held on October 3 to 5, 1999.
As many critics have noted, travel writing was inextricably linked with
the British, indeed with European, imperialism. Travel writing both
facilitated and was made possible by imperial expansion. Yet, despite the
collapse of the British Empire, travel writing remains a popular genre,
and if anything is currently experiencing a renaissance. How have British
travel writers dealt with the end of the Empire? How have they sought to
disassociate themselves from the cultural practices of imperialism? What
cultural work is produced by British travel writing in the late-Twentieth
Century.
This panel seeks proposals for papers on British travel writing of the
last 25 years or so, that read travel writing within the context of the
decolonization that marked much of the second half of the century, and of
Britain's shifting place in the world.
For more information, or to submit a proposal, please contact Douglas
Ivison at ivisond@magellan.umontreal.ca.
Please email me a 250 to 500-word proposal by 1 JULY 1999. Please do not
include your proposal in an attachment but within the text of your email.
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