Comparative World Literature Conference: Borders, Place, and Translations
The 53rd Annual Comparative World Literature Conference: Borders, Place, and Translations
Dates: April 25th-26th, 2018
Location: Anatol Center, California State University, Long Beach
From Starbucks’ retail-branding as a “third place” between home and work to Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, the places of our lives are simultaneously locations and conceptions. To be in a place is to do the representational work of defining that space’s affective and pragmatic borders.