Vectors of the Anti-Spectacle (Panel Proposal for MSA 14)

full name / name of organization: 
Baylee Brits and Kate Montague / University of New South Wales
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We are seeking a participant for our panel at the Modernist Studies Association conference being held in Las Vegas, October 18-21.

This panel explores the negative imprint of the spectacle upon the literary works that occupy a torsional zone between modernism and postmodernism. The panel therefore seeks to extend discussion of the anti-spectacle to 'late modernist' or 'postmodernist' writers who attempt to rupture the saturated space that characterizes our own 'society of the spectacle. The first presentation in this panel deals with the work of J.M. Coetzee, and the second with the work of Cormac McCarthy. We will consider any abstract which discusses the "anti-spectacle" or "negative (traces of the) spectacle" in art, film or literature that is created outside of the traditional boundaries of high modernism.

Please note that the panel proposal will be submitted on the 6th of April, and is still subject to approval by the MSA selection committee.

Please do contact us, at the email address listed above, by the 6th of April, with a short abstract and bio.

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