CALL FOR PAPERS
Cultural Memory and Social Identity
Essays on Canadian Writing invites submissions for a special edition on
cultural memory and social identity, to be edited by Roxanne Rimstead.
Whether as a moral discourse, a social construct, a process, a contested
site, or a commemorative practice, cultural memory is invoked for various
purposes. The politics of remembering and forgetting permeate testimonies
to trauma, claims for recognition by subaltern groups, nostalgic
narratives of the nation's shared past, postcolonial and feminist writing,
constructions of personal identity, and representations of the present and
the future. The study of memory acts calls into question whether the
relationship between reality and remembering is one of continuity or
discontinuity. How do different media and genres provide sites for
enacting traumatic or nostalgic memories (e.g. of welfare, homelessness,
street life, prison life, demonstrations, exile, youth, nation building,
rural life, family, and community)? How can we, as readers of memory acts,
go beyond mere description of the formal properties of these texts
(ranging from testimony and documentary reportage to postmodern collage
and historical metafiction) to understand the cultural politics implied by
remembering and forgetting?
This issue will probe different uses of memory acts across various genres
of literary and popular culture in Canada, including but not limited to
novels, autobiographies, oral histories, films, reportage, theatre,
poetry, and history. Comparative studies are welcome, as are cultural
studies and other interdisciplinary approaches.
The deadline for submission of papers is 31 October 2002.
Submissions (in duplicate) should be mailed to:
Roxanne Rimstead
Responsable Littérature canadienne comparee/
Comparative Canadian Literature
Dept. Lettres et communications (FLSH)
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1
rrimstead@sympatico.ca
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Kevin Flynn
Editor
Essays on Canadian Writing
Department of English
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 2T6
tel 514 398-8326
fax 514 398-8220
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