This update simply includes the dates of the conference in the body of
the message, and the snailmail address for conference organizer Kathleen
Komar, for those authors who prefer to submit by mail rather than
e-mail.
ACLA 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 11-14, 2001
Caribbean Crossings and Articulations of American Identity
This seminar aims to explore how crossings between the islands of the
Caribbean and other nations of the Americas contribute to a productive
tension between cultural and national articulations of American identity
as a transnational category of expression. Papers might treat such
crossings at the level of author or textual subject--persons, that is,
who have migrated and/or lived between the Caribbean and various
American nations; or texts themselves that signify across national and
cultural boundaries and/or that have been claimed for both Caribbean and
other American literary histories. If we consider migration as a
metaphor for translation, how are "source" texts, people, and cultures
transformed by their re-location to new linguistic, cultural, and
geographic settings? Furthermore, if, as George Lipsitz argues, the
history of the nation now takes place in many places at once, what do
texts that involve or detail a complex transnational arena of cultural
transmissions have to say about national identity? What is the relation
of various countermemories to national identity? Papers might examine:
Transnational historical fiction, considering, for example, the use of
historical sources and genealogies to interrogate the nation. How do
alternative transnational genealogies complicate our narratives of
national literature?; Local/cultural resistance to the forces of global
capitalism--what forms of differentiation have globalization and
migration produced?; How is it (or is it ) true that, as Homi Bhabha
claims, the "nation" as a narrative strategy produces a continual
slippage of categories such as "cultural difference" such that the
nation is the measure of the liminality of cultural modernity? What is
the relation of such categories to articulations of the nation? Such
questions are meant to be suggestive rather than exhaustive. Open to a
variety of theoretical approaches, genres, and time periods.
Please send abstracts no later than September 15th, via e-mail
(WordPerfect, Rich Text, or ASCII format please), FAX, or snailmail to
Marni Gauthier: gauthier@mail.colorado.edu / 720.406.1448 / 5331
Flagstaff Road, Boulder, CO 80302 AND to Monika Giacoppe,
giacoppe@ramapo.edu, 201.684.7973/ American and International Studies,
Ramapo College, 505 Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah, NJ 07430. Please cc:
Conference Organizer Kathleen Komar at Komar@ucla.edu, Dept of
Comparative Literature, UCLA, Royce Hall 212, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1536
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