CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fourth Annual
Red River Conference on World Literature
April 26-29, 2001, Fargo ND
Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 1, 2000.
This year's theme is "Colonialism and Postcolonialism in the
Americas." Possible topics include:
* Post / colonialism in indigenous literature and art of the Americas
* Post / colonialism in regional literature and art
* Comparative studies of post / colonialism in the Americas and other world =
regions
* Post / colonial (de) constructions of race, gender, class, and sexual=
orientation in the Americas
* Post / colonial practices in institutions, curriculums, pedagogies
* Borderlands, contact zones, and hybridity
* Sites of difference
* Centers and margins
* Teaching world literature: pedagogy and practice
While we are particularly interested in proposals or panels that
address the conference theme, papers on all aspects of world
literature, global culture, and post colonial studies are welcome.
Presenters should limit their reading to twenty minutes.
=46eatured speakers:
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is currently Visiting Professor of Native
American Studies, Arizona State University. She has published
fiction, poetry, and criticism, including Why I Can't Read Wallace
Stegner and Other Essays and The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded
Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty.
Juanita Garciagodoy, of the Spanish Department at Macalester College,
teaches a wide range of courses: Mexican women's fiction to the
literary "boom" to the classics of Spain. She is the author of
Digging the Days of the Dead: A Reading of Mexico's D=EDas de Muertos,
and her presentation will be on "Transgressive Syncretism in Mexico's
Days of the Dead."
Stephen Pett teaches creative writing and American Indian literature
in the English Department at Iowa State University. He is the author
of two books, a novel and collection of poetry, and his essays,
stories, and poems have been widely published. He recently spent two
years teaching 11th and 12th grade English at the Native American
Preparatory School in Rowe, New Mexico. His presentation is
entitled, "Outside the Western: Native Americans, College Bound-and
Gagged."
Please send a 300-word abstract for individual papers; include your
name, complete mailing address, and e-mail address. Proposals for
panels must include an abstract for each presenter, as well as names,
addresses, and e-mail addresses of all participants. Address all
submissions to Kevin Brooks, Coordinator, Red River Conference on
World Literature, Department of English, 320 Minard Hall, North
Dakota State University, Fargo ND 58105-5075. You may also e-mail
abstracts to Kevin_Brooks@ndsu.nodak.edu.
Selected papers from the conference will be published in the online
Proceedings, available through the Conference web site:
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/kbrooks/RRCWL.
-- Kevin Brooks Assistant Professor Department of English 322C Minard Hall North Dakota State University =46argo ND 58105 701-231-7146 Kevin_Brooks@ndsu.nodak.edu
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