This panel will take place at the American Society for Eighteenth Century
Studies 2004 annual conference in Boston, March 24-28.
CFP: "British Women Writers and Exotic Travel."
This session seeks 20-minute papers on British women writers, travel, and
the exotic in the long eighteenth century and how they shaped the global
imaginary that linked locations in both East and West to Britain¹s national
narrative.
The panel will address questions such as: how do women writers define the
exotic in travel narratives? Does the empowerment of the feminine authorial
voice come at the expense of textual colonization? At the same time, what
role does gender play in subverting binary categories that generate
exoticizing conventions (like self and Other, European/Native,
metropolis/colony, public/domestic)? In what ways do women authors
complicate the erotics of the colonizing travel narrative? Do British women
travel writers map insurgent spaces for reading alterity? ³Exotic² locales
can include, but need not be limited to, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Please send a 300 word abstract, including title and professional
affiliation by October 17. Electronic submissions preferred.
Joselyn M. Almeida
almeidaj@bu.edu
Assistant Professor, Rhetoric
Boston University
College of General Studies
871 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
617-353-
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