The following as an additional session for the SAMLA 2005 Fall
conference, which will be held at the Sheraton Colony Scquare Hotel. For
more information about our conference, please visit our website at
www.samla.org. All other call for papers are list in our Samla News
and News webpage.
CALL FOR PAPERS
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY DISCUSSION CIRCLE
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Critical Conscience
In speculating on and envisioning alternative pasts, presents, and
futures, science fiction and fantasy invite a readership interested not
simply in escape but in critical, revisionary engagements with the
"real" world, specifically with a status quo that favors a particular
social, sexual, economic, religious, and environmental order. Papers
are invited that explore the tendencies of SF and fantasy to subvert
dominant paradigms by critiquing the hegemonic order and/or proposing
alternatives to the socio-political norm. Possible paper topics include
Ursula K. Le Guin's exploration of gender roles in The Left Hand of
Darkness, the radical environmental conscience of the "Red" resistance
movement in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books, or, more generally, the
generic methods by which subversion in science fiction and fantasy has
been achieved. With the general goal of this session being to highlight
the critical potentials of SF and fantasy, submissions from all
theoretical perspectives are encouraged: Marxist interpretations,
ecocritical stances, feminist inquiries, and so forth. Please submit a
one-page abstract by March 31, 2005 to Eric Otto at <eotto_at_fgcu.edu>.
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