Call for Papers:
RETHINKING THE AVANT-GARDE:
BETWEEN POLITICS AND AESTHETICS
April 13-15, 2000
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN
In the attempts to construct expansive theories of
Modernism, the avant-garde has sometimes been characterized
as either purely concerned with aesthetics--some Modernist
theorists have convicted it for being experimental for
experimentation's sake--OR as void of aesthetic content and
only concerned with political ramifications--certain
dismissals of Duchamp's work, for example, are animated by
charges of being merely anti-art (in a bad sense). We are
looking for papers which negotiate between politics and
aesthetics to provide a more nuanced investigation of the
role of the avant-garde in Modernist re-evaluations. While
our focus will be the "historical" avant-garde movements
indigenous to Modernism (Italian and Russian Futurism,
Dada, Imagism, Vorticism, Négritude, and Surrealism), we
encourage investigations which explode these boundaries,
not only between "schools" but also between the
modern/post-modern divide. We are also encouraged by a
recent spate of scholarship on women in the avant-garde,
and welcome not only explorations of this region but also
examinations of race, class, and sexual orientation.
Keynote Speakers:
Martin Jay
Marjorie Perloff
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Krzysztof Ziarek
with responses from:
Gerald Bruns
Fred Dallmayr
Please send a 200-300 word abstract (by email if possible)
by October 15, 1999. Panels proposals are also welcome and
should consist of at least 3 presenters.
Erich Hertz and James Hansen
Department of English
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
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