Call for papers for the following panel to be submitted for
consideration by the annual Narrative Conference at UC-Berkeley, March
27-29:
˙The Event, its Content, and its Telling: Narrative Approaches to
History and/or Historicity˙
In his 1994 essay ˙The Vacillation of Ideology in Marxism,˙ Etienne
Balibar identifies Marxism’s ˙representation of history˙ as a
˙paradoxical limitation˙ that results in either ˙historicity without
history˙ or ˙history without historicity˙ (160). Significantly,
Balibar identifies these results as functions of theory’s tendency to
˙take off at a tangent from the real, toward a ‘lateral object’,˙
thereby deflecting ˙practice toward a fictive end˙ (162).
This panel aims to achieve a more clarified theoretical understanding
of the relations between history and historicity, of the foundational
roles that narratives and narrativizing play in our knowledge of those
relations, and of the ideological implications that narrative’s
˙deflection˙ has on history’s content.
We are concerned more with the processes and experience of ˙having
history˙ than we are with the fact of history. How are the narratives
of events imbued with history and/or historicity? How can narrative
account for and write about the space between an event and its
telling? How does narrative organize (or even orchestrate) the
effectivity of an event as an epistemological category separate from
the event itself? Is historicity the effectivity of history, and how
might narrative serve to reinforce or subvert the ideology of that
effectivity (i.e does narrative over- or underdetermine history and its
telling)? What implications might the answers to these questions have
on specific disciplines that place a particular emphasis on history or
that have had to discover history in order to discover themselves?
We seek papers of standard conference length that address these topics
and questions via literature, history, theory, or philosophy while
maintaining a tight focus on narrative as both form and concept.
Please email 1 page abstracts (cut & paste or Word attachments only,
please) to mahuehls@facstaff.wisc.edu by October 2. We welcome
abstracts from anyone, but all presenters must be members of Narrative
before the middle of October.
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