ASNEL 2004;Discrepant Cosmopolitanism;Frankfurt/M./Germany (May 19-23,2004)
Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL/GNEL)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
"Transcultural English Studies"
May 19-23, 2004
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb10/ieas/abt/nelk/conf2004.html
Call for Papers:
>"Discrepant Cosmopolitanism and Other Paramyths"
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> The scope of this workshop is to explore the notion of cosmopolitanism in
>American literature throughout the 20th century. The frequency with which
>the nineteenth-century version of cosmopolitanism has been used to describe
>the new post-Cold-War global order hints at the limitations as well as at
>the new opportunities ! this concept has within the field of literary
>studies. Who is cosmopolitan and who is not? Most migrants today do not
>move with the prestige and easiness of the contemporary "jet-setters" but
>does this mean that individuals who do not live up to this ideal have no
>right to consider themselves cosmopolitans? Does distinguishing between
>those who are merely "dislocated" and those who are successfully
>"cosmopolitan" produce ground for further discrimination? How does the
>"transmigrant" (Nina Glick-Schiller et al.) dwell within this dichotomy then?
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>In order to make the myth of cosmopolitanism more "user-friendly", this
>workshop intends to expand it by using the notion of "discrepancy."
>Functioning as a para-myth to cosmopolit! anism, discrepant cosmopolitanism
>maintains the positivist, worldly at titude of the former while at the same
>time becoming more local and democratic. Hence, by being attentive to the
>uneven distribution of identity on the ground of race, class and gender
>this form of affiliation would not only address the contemporary situation
>in a more realistic manner but would also be more "political" by the very
>virtue of being historicized.
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>Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the following topics:
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>- The use of cosmopolitanism and recent theories of transnationalism as
>analytical tools for reading contemporary literature.
>- What criteria are at work when a piece of literature is being described
>either as cosmopolitan or as transnational?
>- How has the meaning of the term "cosmopolitan" changed throughout the
>20th century?
>- How has the meaning of the term "transnational" changed since Randolph
>Bourne's essay "Trans-National America", and what might these changes imp ly?
>- What are the traits of transnational/cosmopolitan literature and how does
>it differ from the former exile/expatriate literature?
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>Please send a 250-word proposal with a brief CV to sozretic@web.de and
>sladja.blazan@rz.hu-berlin.de by March 30, 2004. Proposals sent before the
>deadline would be greatly appreciated. Graduate students and faculty are
>both encouraged to apply.
>
>Accepted panelists will be notified by April 10, 2004.
>
>Sladja Blazan and Suncica Ozretic
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