Call for Papers for a session at the 2003 NEMLA conference (Boston,
March 6-9): "Multiethnic, Multivocal, Multilinear: Examining the
Relationship between the Internet and American Multiethnic Literatures"
This panel will examine the role of the internet on critical and
pedagogical practices related to multiethnic American literatures. As
various critics have observed, the internet has occasioned a paradigm
shift away from traditional notions of center, margin, hierarchy, and
linearity (as George Landow has pointed out) and towards multi-linearity
and multi-vocality. What we are seeing, as Landow observes in
_Hypertext 2.0_ (1997), is a convergence between poststructuralist
theory and computer/hypertext theory. This panel seeks to explore the
extent to which we are also seeing a convergence between web-based
paradigms of non-linearity, non-hierarchicality, and multivocality and
text-based paradigms found in the work of many American multiethnic
writers. Essays that discuss ways in which the internet has been put to
creative use both in teaching and writing about multiethnic American
literatures (any period or genre) are welcome.
Send 1-2 page abstracts by September 15, 2002 to Patty Keefe Durso via
email or fax. Email to dursop@mail.montclair.edu (as email text or as
Word or .rtf attachments) or fax to 201-512-9410.
All participants in a session must be NEMLA members and registered for
the convention by December 1, 2002. Members may present only ONE paper
and they may participate in another session in another capacity (i.e.,
organize and chair, serve as a respondent on a panel). More information
may be found at http://www.nemla.org.
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Patty Keefe Durso
Assistant Professor of English
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
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