ACLA Seminar proposal for Annual Meeting
Topos/Chronos: Aesthetics for a New Millennium.
Boulder CO, April 20-22, 2001
Staging and Stalling Return in Literature and Other Media
We invite proposals that interrogate the trope of return in a comparative
context. Though inspired by postcolonial and transnational representations
of nostalgia, exile, memory, and place, the seminar could usefully explore
the concept of return across various historical periods and genres.
Particular areas of interest include the relation of sexuality to
discourses of connection and return, gender and the logics of belonging,
the teleology of return in cultural politics, melancholia and the
suspension of return, and return as a spatial articulation of the relation
between past and future.
In addition to these topics, other possibilities include, but are not
limited to:
=B7 Return in quest narratives in various traditions (premodern,
modern, or postmodern)
=B7 Diasporic conventions and disruptions of return
=B7 Return in film, performance art, and other media
=B7 The invention of space through return
=B7 Nationalism (or race, sexuality, class, etc) and return
=B7 The uses of return in literatures of trauma
=B7 Resisting return
=B7 Relations between narratology and discourses of return
=B7 Lyric invocations of return
=B7 Pop-culture nostalgia
Please email one to two-page abstracts and a short or summary CV by
September 10 to:
Katherine Sugg (ksugg@ucdavis.edu) or Marisa Belausteguigoitia
(misabel@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
or mail to Katherine Sugg, 8560 Holmes Ln., Winters CA, 95694.
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