Abstracts invited for the following panel at the 13th Annual Central New York
Conference on Language and Literature at the State University of New York in
Cortland, October 26-28, 2003.
Rethinking the Postcolonial City
This panel invites a rethinking of the postcolonial city and/or inner cities in
the context of increasing globalization and East-West conflict. How are cities
like Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Lahore, Nairobi, Mombasa, Accra, Lagos, Ibadan,
Kingston, Port of Spain, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Wellington altered by
flows of international capital, terrorism, migration and/or tourism? How do
they resist the universalizing impulse of European and North-American
capitalism? How are they represented by global media and postcolonial
literature, theory and/or criticism? In view of the potential tyranny of
spatial metaphor, how might scholars theorize postcolonial, urban space? What
is unique to this space and how might postcolonial literature affect/effect it?
What is the relationship between the postcolonial city, the rural space
surrounding it and/or the metropoles? How does the postcolonial city continue
to be shaped by imperialist legacy and indigenous traditions? What is at stake
in the textualization of cityscapes? Has postcolonial, urban space become the
privileged site of resistance at the expense of the rural?
Aspects of this theme may include (but are not limited to) the following:
Diaspora, Home, Dwelling, Community
Homelessness, Poverty
Place/Space, Identity
Cosmopolitanism, (Post)Modernity, Utopianism/Dystopianism/Science Fiction
Nationalism, Heritage, Citizenship
Development, Mobility
Send 500 word abstracts by July 15, 2003 to: hrsnell@uwo.ca
By snail mail:
Heather Snell
Department of English, University of Western Ontario
London, ON
N6A 3K7
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