UPDATE: Blowing Up the Margins (grad) (7/20/05; 10/7/05-10/8/05)

Call for Papers: ‘Blowing Up’ the Margins

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date: October 7 & 8, 2005
Submission deadline: July 20, 2005

*** Visit the website at: http://www.sfu.ca/~gradconf ***

What gets included in the category of literature? What doesn’t, and
why? What is lost and what is gained through the exclusion of certain
texts, of certain modes of inquiry? What gets theorized and what gets
trivialized? How are the lines drawn and who draws them? How do we talk
about marginalized literatures without invoking binaries and boundaries,
without inscribing them?
     
The graduate students of Simon Fraser University’s English Department
invite you to submit an abstract for ‘Blowing Up’ the Margins. The term
“blowing up” is used here in all of its connotations: as a disquieting
site of disruption and deconstruction, an expansion, magnification and
explosion. These images echo legacies of violence (epistemological,
structural, discursive, and material) and the possibility of renewal and
reconstruction. This conference aims to critically explore those texts
and ideas which have traditionally been relegated to a space conceived
of as outside academia. We ask therefore for papers and creative
presentations that address marginalized texts, and/or traditional
literatures from marginalized perspectives. Potential topics might
include, but are not limited to:

fantasy and speculative fiction
children’s literature
comic books/manga
pop culture
queer lit/theory
erotica/romance lit
detective fiction
horror/-gothic
TV/video games
interactive media
minority writing
mixed-media prose & poetics
spoken word/music lyrics
women’s and/or gendered writing
oral narratives
collaborative works
hypertext and blogs
fanfiction
legacies of marginalization

While the above list aims to interrogate the marginalized status of
certain texts and theories in academia, we also welcome critical papers
and conversations about normative categories and spaces, such as
masculinity, whiteness, and heterosexuality (to name but a few examples)
in an attempt to smudge the lines between what is considered traditional
and what is considered marginal in our departments.

Please send 200-250 word proposals by July 20th, 2005 to
gradconf_at_sfu.ca. Presentations will be 15 to 20 minutes in length (8
pages) and proposals must include your title, name, contact information
(e-mail, address, home and work number), equipment needs, abstract and a
small bio.

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