CFP: Examining the Discipline of Comparative Literature (3/10/03; 3/28/03)

A Globe of Competing Discourses: Examining the Discipline of Comparative
Literature

March 28, 2003

The contemporary state of the discipline of comparative literature is one of
self-definition; its former attitude of comfortable humanism fractured into
a babel of competing voices, each speaking through its own literal and
theoretical tongue. Marxist theory, cultural studies, postcolonial studies,
critical theory, the history of philology and literary criticism, all are
parts of the discipline, none are by any means its whole, nor its most
complete expression. This conference wishes to investigate performatively
the contributions of each of these voices, in order to approach the question
of how, entrenched in our own distinct fields of knowledge and their
specific theoretical and political matrices, we might benefit from
encountering our own intellectual products within a broader contextual
field. Submissions will be considered from all aspects of the discipline,
and submissions from related disciplines are welcomed as well. Submissions
need not focus specifically upon the question of the discipline, though
their focus ought to be relevant to larger questions confronting this field
of study. Contributors are expected to present upon their own areas of
specialization, but to arrive prepared to discuss the relevance of their
work in a broader disciplinary context.

-- Gender / Sexuality / Race / Questions of Identity and Class and Culture

-- Language / History / Questions of the Tradition and Philology

-- Questions of Critical Theory and Praxis

-- Nationalism / Politics / Questions of Power and Space

-- Globalization / N / S / E / W / Questions of Postcolonialism

Selected submissions will be chosen for publication in
&.
(Ampersand)
The Journal of the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU

Abstracts 500 words or less are due by March 10th
Please send all submissions and questions to: bradtabas_at_hotmail.com

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