Call for seminar papers for the American Comparative Literature
Association Annual Conference 2007,
"Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact"
Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007

Deadline: 1 November 2006

Seminar Title: This is Not Your Home

This seminar invites papers which consider the relationship between
representations of place (specifically sites which have undergone
significant change through crisis - war, violence, gentrification), and
the shifting politics of representation itself. Are there habits of
representation? Do writers (reportage, fiction, published journals)
present a unified 'version' of a place (i.e., memoirs of Vietnam and
Cambodia, accounts of post-war Italian South, reportage on AIDS in Africa,
accounts in recent US fiction of 9/11), and how do such representations
tally with 'historic' or 'popular' representations of these places and
cultures? What kinds of writing (what kinds of debates) are possible when
a site/subject is contested? What ethical, political, or moral
obligations are there upon a writer (a journalist, a fiction writer, a
cultural critic etc.,) when a place and people are subjected to crisis?

Please submit abstracts online at
http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/forms/form2.html by 1 November 2006 and
indicate "This is Not Your Home" as the seminar topic. If you wish, you
may also send a copy of the abstract to Richard House (r.house_at_uea.ac.uk)

For further information on the conference, please see
http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/.

--Richard HouseUniversity of East Anglia, LIT+44 (0)7984038134 ========================================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP_at_english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://cfp.english.upenn.edu or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu ==========================================================Received on Thu Oct 05 2006 - 01:55:34 EDT