Update: papers due 5/27/03 to address below
Call for Papers: Virtually Third World Literature (5/27/03; Southern
Comparative Literature Association, 19-21 September 2003 in Austin TEXAS)
Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA) Annual Conference;
Theme: Going Global – the Futures of Comparative Literature
Time: Sept. 19 – 21 2003
Place: University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Panel: Virtually Third World Literature
Proposals are sought for papers that deal with, in one way or another, the
impact of internet technologies on the nature, character, definition,
dissemination, or meanings of third world literatures. Clearly, internet
technologies have displaced many third world regions from a network of global
capital, communication and network-building. Poverty, poor infrastructures and
national IT policies mean that computers and the power of the internet is
extended to very few. In other ways, though, the internet has facilitated the
movement of information globally like never before and empowered and connected
third world independent journalists and writers to self-publish, sometimes
under pseudonyms. Moreover, recent collections such as Global Literacies and
the World-Wide Web (2000), and Beyond Dichotomies: Histories, Identities and
the Challenge of Globalization (2002) also point to the ways scholars have been
concerned with the transformation of third world literatures as they meet
This panel proposes to explore the multitude of ways the internet has
influenced the futures of third world literatures.
Areas of exploration include:
=88 How have internet technologies shaped ideologies and mythologies of authors
and authorship in third world regions?
=88 How have internet technologies changed the reception and dissemination (for
better or worse) of third world literature?
=88 What is the “Internet fallout” of individual works of third world
literature? (criticism, message boards, listservs, blogs, MOOs, fandom, etc.)
=88 Redefinitions of literature as a category and third world “literatures” on
the Internet
=88 How have internet technologies changed the face of (third world) classics?
=88 What happens to oral literatures that are adapted and disseminated over the
Internet?
=88 The internet and regional self-definitions and redefinitions (“what is
third world on the Internet?”)
=88 Internet and diaspora connections
=88 Internet and nostalgia
=88 Conceptions of display and performance with regards to third world
literature on the Internet
=88 Race and racialization vis a vis third world literature and criticism on
the Internet
=88 What urban/web myths have been spawned on the internet regarding third
world literatures; and/or how are the myths themselves literature?
500 word abstracts to rlorins@mail.utexas.edu by May 27. (in email or
attachments accepted) (please pass on to any interested parties)
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