CFP: (dis)junctions: U.S. Latina/o Literature and Violence (2/14/03; 4/11/03-4/12/03)

U.S. Latina/o Literature and the Language of Violence as Critical Discourse

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at “(Dis)Junctions:
Morphing the Written Word” at the University of California Riverside’s 10th
Annual Humanities Conference on April 11-12, 2003.

Contributors are invited to submit papers on any aspect of U.S. Latina/o
fiction, autobiography, poetry, and theater including (but not limited to)
the following questions:

-Is the language of violence in U.S. Latina/o literature a method of
socio-political critical discourse?
-Is violence in U.S. Latina/o literature a performance of masculine or
feminine gender roles?
-In what ways does investigating the language of violence in U.S. Latina/o
literature open new avenues of contemporary literary theory?

One page abstracts of 250 words should be emailed to
disjunctionspanels_at_hotmail.com by February 14, 2003. Text should be
included in the body of the email; please no attachments. For more
information, please refer to our general CFP: Humanities: morphing the
written word or log on to our website listed below. If sending by mail, use
the following address:

Disjunctions, UCR’s 10th Annual Conference
Department of English
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA 92527-0323

For more information on the conference, please visit
http://www.english.ucr.edu/gsea/index1.htm

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