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Submissions are invited for a proposed seminar on Canada and the
Americas: Comparative Approaches to Canadian Literatures to be convened
at the annual American Comparative Literature Association Conference
meeting, April 4-6, 2003 at Cal State San Marcos.
Americanists are increasingly moving towards a more hemispheric and
comparative model of literary study. Yet discussions of a hemispheric
American Studies and of the literature of the Americas tend to be
oriented southward to the exclusion of Canada. Similarly, border
theory has tended to identify the U.S.-Mexico border as paradigmatic,
again to the exclusion of a Canadian presence. In keeping with ACLA
2003's focus on borders and on inter-American relations, this seminar
seeks papers that will explore the place of Canada in a hemispheric
American Studies. How would our understanding of the Americas be
changed through the inclusion of Canada? To what extent does Canadian
cultural production fit easily with current paradigms and assumptions
about the Northern hemisphere? And how might a stronger emphasis on
Canada alter the shape of American Studies?
In addition, this seminar seeks papers that examine how Canadian texts
travel. In particular, how are diasporic Canadian authors such as
Dionne Brand and filmmakers such as Srinivas Krishna received
differently outside of their local Canadian contexts? How neatly do
models of diasporic culture developed out of a U.S. context apply to
Canadian cultural production? How important is it to maintain a sense
of local and national contexts in light of the increasingly
transnational and global character of Canadian cultural production?
Finally, how is the theme of "crossing over" explored within Canadian
literature and other artforms? This may include not only geographical
border crossings but also cross-overs between historical periods,
ethnicities, languages, religions, sexual orientations, genres, and
media. Papers comparing intra-Canadian literature and cultures are
welcome.
Please submit paper proposals by September 20 to Rachel Adams
(REA15@columbia.edu) and Sarah Phillops Casteel (SAP34@columbia.edu).
-- Rachel Adams Assistant Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University REA15@columbia.edu=============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu ===============================================
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