I seek 1-2 papers for an accepted special session at next year's M/MLA
in Minneapolis (Nov 4-6).
"Globalization and Literary Studies"
What does it mean to speak of literary studies as paratactically linked
to globalization? What else is at stake besides the extension of
canonical value to include so-termed "new" or "emergent" literatures?
How do questions of globalized literary study
both benefit from and inform the socio-economic models typically used to
analyze globalization? This special session shifts the focus of
globalization studies from the often-considered sphere of consumer
culture to the *producing* culture of global literary scholarship.
Rather than think through hybridity and its core terms--mimicry,
appropriation, and resistance--the presentations of this panel will
re-evaluate the movements of power behind the global: in its discursive
forms, theoretical mediations, and institutional productions. Papers
accepted thus far propose to attend to particular circumscriptions of
globalization theories by Western interests--e.g. a literary conference
held in China on the question of "globalization and the humanities"--and
to the intersections between theories of culture and theories of world
systems.
Abstracts and brief CVs by April 26.
-- Rita Raley Assistant Professor of English 207 Lind Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 raley@tc.umn.edu Fax: 612.624.8228=============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu ===============================================
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