CALL FOR PAPERS
“Subjects/Objects/Cultures”
American Comparative Literature Association
in association with Cal State San Marcos
San Diego, April 4-6 2003
One of the major intellectual swerves of the twentieth century was, Douglas
Mao argues in _Solid Objects_, is the development of a “feeling of regard
for the physical object as object—as not-self, as not-subject, as most
helpless and will-less of entities, but also as fragment of Being, as
solidity, as otherness in its most resilient opacity” (4). Taking up this
year’s general conference theme--“crossing over”--this seminar features a
wide range of papers that explore the complex dynamics marking the
interactions between the animate and inanimate, subjects and objects.
As I see it, this form of “crossing over” ought to be fairly broadly
conceived, and thus include relationships between selves and “others,”
translators and their texts, alphabetic languages and ideographic ones
(characters as objects that communicate visually), objets (and sujets) d’
art, object lessons, and so on... and all through this a good clean sense
that subjects get the objects they deserve, and vice versa: that is, that
the mode of perception constitutes the object-world as it needs to perceive
it. Cross-cultural work is not only welcome but encouraged. Feel free,
however, to stick with one language or another, one culture or another.
The deadline for panel proposals is August 1, so please send 250-word
abstracts via email by July 30, 2002, to Eric Hayot at ehayot@u.arizona.edu.
Please include address and e-mail address with submissions.
Note: all presenters must be members of ACLA. Membership and conference
information can be found at http://www.acla.org.
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Eric Hayot, Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0067
21 1780 -- phone
(520) 621 7397 -- fax
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