UPDATED AREA CALL FOR PAPERS:
CFP: Latin American soap operas/telenovelas.
Mexico Meeting of the Popular Culture Association
in Conjunction with the Fifth Congress of the Americas
The University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico
October 18-20, 2001
(http://www.udlap.mx/congress/)
The deadline for submitting papers and panels has been changed to 30
June, 2001.
UK and US soap operas have long been a focus of serious scholarly
attention. Now, global dominance of the soap market has shifted to the
telenovelas produced across Latin America. Papers and panels analyzing
the soap opera/telenovela from a wide range of perspectives are
encouraged; papers might explore the narrative, performative, cultural,
social, economic, or political implications of this form. Global,
interdisciplinary, and international perspectives are especially
encouraged.
Papers and/or panels can focus on, but are not limited to, themes such
as those listed below:
ÿ Historical development of the soap opera/telenovela
ÿ Historical, national, or cultural perspectives within the telenovela
ÿ The history and development of the Mexican telenovela
ÿ The local versus the global: does the telenovela made for export lose
its national specificity?
ÿ Comparative/cross-cultural examination of soap operas/telenovelas
ÿ Televisual constructions of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality; of
race and ethnicity; of class; of nationalisms
ÿ Telenovelas in the U.S. market
ÿ Serial narrative form: the postcolonial serial, etcetera
ÿ Telenovelas and social movements
ÿ Ethnography and other approaches to audience studies
ÿ Telenovelas for a new millennium
Please send a typed abstract of 150-250 words, in English or Spanish.
Provide the name and academic title of each presenter and give the name
and complete address of the main presenter. Include the telephone
number, fax number, and e-mail address of the main author. E-mailed or
faxed proposals are preferred; submission by normal snail mail is NOT
encouraged.
Deadline for proposals is June 30, 2001. This Area is one of the
international activities of the national Popular Culture Association;
the Program Chair is Peter Rollins (RollinsPC@aol.com). The Congress of
the Americas is the largest congress devoted to the evolving North
American community, and this year’s conference promises to be exciting,
with cultural events, tours etc. in addition to the academic sessions.
Editors of presses and journals rely on the Congress for special issues
and articles; it has extensive press coverage as well. For full
information about the conference, check the conference web site:
www.udlap.mx/congress.
PLEASE CONTACT AREA CHAIR:
Jennifer Hayward
Department of English
College of Wooster
Wooster, OH 44691
jhayward@acs.wooster.edu
(330) 263-2397
fax (330) 231-7013
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