Panel Proposal:
12th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
February 28-March 1, 2003
The Courtyard Mariott and the Coastal Georgia Center in Historic Downtown
Savannah, GA
Keynote Speaker: Romesh Gunesekera, Author of The Sandglass and Reef
"Postcolonial Exile"
I am soliciting paper proposals for a panel investigating various notions of
"postcolonial exile." Specific topics addressed in these 15-minute
presentations might include:
>Responses to Edward Said's seminal essay, "Reflections on Exile."
>Negotiations between Modernist conceptions of exile and postcolonial responses.
>Exile and its inflection through a postcolonial poetics.
>Exile in the age of globalization.
Other proposals dealing with migration, diaspora, and postcolonial displacement
will also be considered.
Please submit a one-page (250-300 words) abstract by Oct. 10, 2002. All
submissions should be accompanied by the following information: name, academic
affiliation, mailing address and telephone numbers, paper title, and national
origin(s) and genre or work(s), text(s) discussed. E-mail is preferred
(pbixby@emory.edu).
Patrick Bixby
English Department
Emory University
N302 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
U.S.A.
email: pbixby@emory.edu
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