ALIENATION OR EXILE: THE DECENTERED SUBJECT
DATES: 30-31 march 2001
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MICHAEL DASH
In a multidisciplinary approach aiming to bring together academic
perspectives that are simultaneously literary, sociological, theoretical
and historical, the French Department of NYU presents its annual
conference on "alienation or exile : the decentered subject."
* How to think culture and literature in the wake of globalization?
* How does one define the feeling of belonging to a territory, a race and
a language in this new space inhabited by the writer and the intellectual?
* The status and representation of the subject in a world where the
concept of nation is fading away
* Nationalism and colonialism
* Representation and/or the problematics of identity
* The importance of the Other and exoticism
* Wandering and nomadism in literature
* The figure of the writer in exile
* The many faces of the alienated subject
* Stranger in one's land
Please send abstracts before December 1st, 2000 to:
Philippe Barr
NYU French Department
726 Broadway, 6th floor
New York, NY 10003
or
e-mail: pb387@is9.nyu.edu
Papers may be submitted in French or English
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