CFP: Female Memory and Voice in Third Cinema (4/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

Proposals are being accepted for the panel, "Narration in Exile: Female Memory
and Voice in Third Cinema" for the Midwest Modern Language Association
(MMLA)conference next November 10-13 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Presentations should be 15-20 minutes and cover some aspect of the following
panel description:

Films using nontraditional storytelling elements such as extended silence,
gossip, and fragmented speech can create spaces for counter narratives among or
within films and cinematic systems. This session investigates how such
neglected forms of storytelling operate in female-centered films of Third
Cinema. Presenters will consider questions such as what occurs when
nontraditional rhetorical devices become central to a narrative, how these
strategies enact new theories of consciousness and culture within sites of
displacement, and what possibilities for creating new or alternate spaces
emerge. Furthermore, presenters might consider how these narrative strategies
influence how viewers read opposition, history, memory, and diaspora.

Send one-page electronic abstracts by April 15 to Susan Kerns, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English: sskerns_at_uwm.edu

For more information about the conference, go to: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/

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