Call for Papers
CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE:
The University of Iowa's 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on
Writing in the Academy
March 28-30, 2003
Keynote Speakers:
Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Aldon Nielsen
"Writing (Against) Culture: Experimentation and Transculturation"
CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing
on the divisions between critical and creative approaches to writing both
within the academy and in the larger world. This year's conference will
also have a special focus on "experimental" writing and writing which
mutates traditional generic, cultural, and national boundaries. We want to
create a venue for the exploration of the experimental as a capacious
rubric that encompasses both the avant-garde(s) and other writing which
militates within and against dominant discourses. How does writing
enact social and political transgression through linguistic
experimentation? How can writing which takes place alongside and
across geographical and cultural interstices offer alternatives to the
dominant modes of language? How can we read popular literatures in
the context of a financially and socially authorized discourse? By looking
at writing that transgresses traditional boundaries, whether geographical
or social, this conference will seek to include a variety of concerns,
including border-crossing, intermedia, hybridity, experimental writing, and
the avant-garde. Literary criticism, border studies, theoretical and cultural
studies approaches, in addition to original creative work, are welcome.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Writing in/against empire
* Cross-cultural avant-gardism
* Language writing and political conflict
* Popular literature, ideology, and the culture industry
* Intermedia and performativity
* Race, gender, and experimental writing
* Jazz and literature
* Migratory aesthetics
Please submit papers, abstracts, or panel proposals by January 15, 2003
to:
Gunnar Benediktsson
English Department
308 English Philosophy Building
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1492
gunnar-benediktsson@uiowa.edu
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged.
For more information, please contact Gunnar Benediktsson at the above
address, or visit our webpage at http://www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf.
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