CFP: Multi-Ethnic Literatures @ Century's End (grad) (7/23; 10/23)

From: REBECCA A. MEACHAM-GARDNER (meachara@ucenglish.mcm.uc.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 18 1999 - 16:37:37 EDT

<center><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>CALL FOR PAPERS</center>

<center><smaller>The University of Cincinnati </center>

<center>Department of English and Comparative Literature Presents</center>

<center>The 1999 Graduate Student Conference</center>

<center><bigger>Intersections: Multi-Ethnic Literatures @ Century's End<smaller></center>

<center>Saturday, October, 23, 1999</center>

<center>Cincinnati, Ohio<bigger></center>

<FontFamily><param>Garamond</param><smaller>The purpose of the 1999 Graduate Student Conference is to examine
intersections: the ways that aesthetics, disciplines, themes, and theories are
merging within the field of Multi-Ethnic literary and film study. This one-
day exchange of literary scholarship anticipates how boundaries are-- and
will continue to be-- crossed, erased, and modified in the next century.<bigger>

<smaller>POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

<smaller>THEMES AND CROSS-ROADS:

<bigger>** Border-crossings and Intersections in literatures, films<smaller>

<bigger>** Turn-of-the-Century, Millennial themes in Multi-Ethnic literatures, films<smaller>

<bigger>** Migration and Immigration

** Passing: How do ethnic writers and/or characters "pass" in culture?

** Queering passages, sexual transgressions

** Orature, Drama, and Literature

** "Slam" poetry, Hip Hop, and emerging forms

<smaller>INTERDISCIPLINARITY, PEDAGOGY, AND THE ACADEMY:

<bigger>** Where, in literature and/or film, does "race" intersect with class, with
sexuality, with other social codes?

** Division or Hybridity? How is hybridity changing Multi-Ethnic Studies?
What distinctions remain?

** Canon formation: Where do we stand in the year 1999?

** Who is "allowed" to teach Multi-Ethnic literatures and/or films? <smaller>

<bigger>** Walls in Academia: How have Multi-Ethnic movements affected
disciplinary borders?

** Whiteness Studies

** The Multi-Ethnic Literature classroom in the New Millennium

<smaller>THEORY , AESTHETICS, COMMODIFICATION:

<bigger>** Applying Western theories to Multi-Ethnic texts (Psychoanalytic,
Deconstruction, etc.)

** Multi-Ethnic theories and Western texts

** How do we evaluate Multi-Ethnic literatures and films?

** Questions of genre and classification

** Jazz, Blues, and Rap Aesthetics in literature and film

** The Black Aesthetic

** Literary/film production, marketing, commodification of "ethnicity"

<smaller>EMERGING TRENDS:

<bigger>** Technology + Multi-Ethnicity: Spiderwoman's Web(sites)?

** Hypertext and Multi-Ethnic Literatures

** Pop Culture

** Film Studies

** CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS WELCOME**

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Creative and scholarly submissions must include a separate listing of name,
paper title, institution, departmental affiliation, mailing address, e-mail
address, and phone number. Please submit TWO COPIES of your work.

Send copies of one-page abstracts or completed papers by July 23, 1999 to:

 

Intersections Conference

University of Cincinnati

Department of English and Comparative Literature

P.O. Box 210069

Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069

Notification of acceptance will be sent by September 1, 1999.

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Please direct e-mail submissions and questions to:

Rebecca Meacham

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AND:

 

Wendy Rountree

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Please visit our website (under construction):

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