CFP: Trauma Narratives (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)
Trauma Narratives
This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside's 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.
Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
traumatic narratives. Papers may examine any aspect
of trauma narratives, including specific texts and/or
critical and cultural frameworks for such texts. How
are traumatic events articulated in our current
cultural moment? How do cultural understandings of
trauma effect understandings of self? How do trauma
narratives influence and change notions of healing?
Other potential topics include: