CFP: Literary Representations of Toronto (submission deadline 9/15/01;
NEMLA in Toronto, 4/12/02 - 4/13/02)
For the 2002 NEMLA convention in Toronto, I have received approval for a
panel on "Literary Representations of Toronto" -- the city in/as its
literary representations. Papers may consider recent or earlier fiction
or poetry, Canadian or otherwise, set in or concerned significantly with
Toronto.
Pico Iyer has recently described Toronto as "perhaps one of the most
enlightened cities on the planet"; has Toronto indeed outgrown its
parochial past as "muddy York" or "Toronto the good," as Canadian texts
have become internationally desirable commodities? This session hopes to
encourage both reflection on the developing nature of Toronto as a
psychosocial and political environment, and consideration of its complex
role in a geographically wider Canadian, North American and world
consciousness. As it has appeared in work by Findley, Ondaatje,
Mukherjee, Michaels, Clarke, Atwood, and numerous others, what kind of
character has Toronto been given? How does a perceived Torontocentrism
within central Canada affect writing in other parts of Canada? How does
Toronto appear in nonCanadian texts (e.g. by Irving, Lewis), and how
does its presentation compare with that of other great North American
cities? How is Toronto constructed by immigrants from other countries?
Such reflections may lead to more general consideration of the
significance of place and geography in literary production and
productivity.
Send two-page proposals or ten-page papers by September 15, email or
snail-mail, to:
Deborah Bowen, Dept. of English, Redeemer University College, 777
Garner Rd East, Ancaster, ON, L9K 1J4, Canada;
mailto:dcbowen@redeemer.on.ca.
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