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CFP: SCREENING THE PAST Special Issue--Untimely cinema: cinema out of time (abstracts due Nov 30 2010 for late 2011 publication)

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 9:45pm
SCREENING THE PAST

Call for papers: Untimely cinema: cinema out of time – a special Issue of Screening the Past (2011)
Guest Editors: Jodi Brooks and Therese Davis
"Untimeliness deployed as an effective intellectual strategy, far from being a gesture of indifference to time, is a bid to reset time." Wendy Brown, Edgework p.4

In the Wake of 9/11: American Texts in the Twenty-First Century (NeMLA, April 7-10, 2011; deadline September 30)

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Saturday, September 18, 2010 - 8:48pm
Northeast Modern Language Association

NeMLA, April 7–10, 2011, New Brunswick, NJ

"In the Wake of 9/11: American Texts in the Twenty-First Century"

The ten-year anniversary of 9/11 raises new questions about the possibilities and limitations of memorialization, bringing new complexity to acts of re-evaluation and re-assessment. In the past ten years, representations of 9/11 have recovered meaning at the site of loss and have also problematized such attempts, offering a range of ideas about the relationship between textual representations and the material facts of history. In Falling Man, Don DeLillo describes the post-9/11 landscape, writing, "Everything now is measured by after." In 2011, how do we measure these works?