The International Conference on Digital Enterprise and Information Systems(DEIS2011)

London Metropolitan Business School,
London Metropolitan University, London, UK
July 20-22, 2011
http://www.sdiwc.net/uk/index.php

This seminar examines how writing from the Maghreb intersects with word literature(s) and how language becomes a function of world literary value. How do the concepts of world literature or comparative literature relate to, elucidate, or occlude regional, national, or local concerns? How has critical and creative writing attempted to come to terms with the legacy of French colonial language politics in the Maghreb since 1830 and the enduring effects of Orientalism as a radical re-organization of forms of knowledge and cultural practices? How to trace the development of Arabization (and its discontents) and the range of "postcolonial" language wars and contestations?

This collection of essays seeks to explore the connection(s) between working mothers and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have been investigated in relation to the novel, the idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a professional, material, literary, and cultural site has received little critical attention. We would welcome essays on the following topics: