UPDATE/ATTENTION: CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Deadline)
(Dis)Locating Identity in the 20th Century:
An International Conference
http://www.usc-conference.mtvcc.us/
Saturday, April 3 - Sunday, April 4, 2004
University of South Carolina-Columbia
Department of English
The diverse intersections of location and identity entail a necessary debate about the ways cultural, social, historical, political, environmental, and religious forces shape identity in the twentieth century. The arts provide a forum in which the complex relationship between location and identity can be explored and questioned. Is it possible to map identity? Is the question of culture equivalent to the question of identity? Is identity a project or an object? Does the permeability of physical boundaries affect the definitiveness of identity? Is the term identity obsolete? How do gender, sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, and nationality play into this conversation? We seek papers that not only reflect and build upon these issues, but encourage the analysis and exploration of multiple types of literature such as hypertext, film, art, and music in addition to poetry and prose. We strongly encourage cross-genre discussions.
Topics may include, but certainly are not limited to:
* the woman warrior
* culture versus counterculture
* mental illness
* issues in virtual space
* rural versus urban life
* the metropolis
* the flâneur and mapping the city
* identity and a life on the road
* (de)constructing gender and race
* struggles in Modernism
* fragmentation and construction
* feminist writing/theory/practice
* social and natural environments
* masculinity and femininity
* religion and spirituality
* post-colonial experience
* war culture
* activism and the arts
The deadline for submission is Monday, November 17, 2003.
Please submit an abstract at http://www.usc-conference.mtvcc.us/.
Information on our Keynote Addresses:
Professor David Cowart:
David Cowart, Louise Fry Scudder Professor at the University of SouthCarolina (Columbia), has won major awards for teaching and research. A consulting editor for the journal Critique, Professor Cowart has been an NEH fellow and held Fulbright chairs at the University of Helsinki and at Odense University in Denmark. In addition to over ninety articles, notes, and reviews, he has written five books: Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion (1980), Arches and Light: The Fiction of John Gardner (1983), History and the Contemporary Novel (1989), Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing (1993), and Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language (2002). He is at present finishing a new book on recent American immigrant writing.
Professor Janette Turner Hospital:
Janette Turner Hospital is Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She has formerly been Writer-in-Residence at Boston University, M.I.T., Colgate University, and at universities in Australia, Canada, England, and France. Her novels have been translated into many languages (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Czech and Hindi among others) and have received prestigious literary awards. Among her internationally acclaimed novels are: The Ivory Swing (1982), winner of Canada's Seal Award, Borderline (1985), Charades (1988), The Last Magician (1992) and Oyster (1996). Dislocations (1987), a collection of short stories, won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Fiction Award in 1988. Her works deal with a sense of displacement and search for identity. She herself has led a nomadic life, and the constant dislocation became one of the main themes in her writing. Her latest novel, Due Preparations for the Plague, was published in May 2003, and has already received major
critical acclaim in Australia, Canada, and the USA.
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