Writing and Terror
A Conference at the University of Toronto
March 16-17, 2001
Please send one-page (250-word) abstracts to Julija Sukys at
jsukys@chass.utoronto.ca by October 25, 2000. Abstracts should be
accompanied by short bios.
Hard-copies can be sent to:
Sean Gurd
The Centre for Comparative Literature
University of Toronto
130 St. George Street, Rm 14045
Toronto, On
M5S 1A1
We seek papers that examine the intersection of non-state terror and
writing.
The relations between writing and state terror, such as have occurred
this century in Stalinist Russia, Pinochet's Chile, and elsewhere, have
been well documented. But what happens when a writer finds him- or
herself in a context where the violence that threatens him comes from a
source that cannot be pinpointed, or from multiple sources not connected
by any centralized apparatus? In other words, what are the relations of
writing and terrorism?
We invite proposals for papers (from all fields) dealing with the
relationship between writing and terror in any aspect, including (but
not limited to):
Baudrillard on terror
Chomsky on terrorism
Deleuze on the rhizome
Albert Camus on terror in _L'homme révolté_
Tactics vs. strategy
Terror and journalism
Terrorists vs. revolutionaries
Guerilla writing
Cyberterrorism and hacking
Hostage memoirs vs. prison writing
Cinematic representations of terror and terrorists
State-sponsored terrorism
Terror in the ancient world
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