[Discussion] 'Inside the Whale: The Postcolonial and Globalisation'

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School of Cultural Studies, University College Northampton.
Conference: 'Inside the Whale: The Postcolonial and Globalisation':
Northampton, 11-13 July 2003

Plenary Speakers:   Susan Bassnett, Simon During, Bart Moore Gilbert

Call for papers:

Papers are invited on the theme of 'Inside the Whale: The Postcolonial
and Globalisation'. The conference seeks to explore the tensions
existing
between economic, political and cultural global forces and the
resistances
and adaptations to them that come from local and regional identities. It

aims to re-examine the meaning of the 'post-colonial' in the light of
recent
world developments.  Aspects of this theme may include the following:

·       New modes: the Gothic and Exotic
·       Post-Colonial Theory Now
·       Identities and Locations
·       Translating Cultures
·       Travel, Tourism and Terrorism
·       Networking the Postcolonial: Teaching and Publishing
·       Re-branding the Popular
·       Deterritorialised Nationalities
·       Asylum and Exile
·       New uses of History

Contributions from  disciplines other than literary and cultural studies

are
welcome. Suggestions for panel discussions are also invited. The
conference
will include readings from noted writers.

Abstracts  of approximately 300 words should be sent by 28 February 2003

to
Janet.Wilson@northampton.ac.uk; offers for convening panels to the same
address.

The conference proceedings will be published in the journal, World
Literature Written in English which is now edited from The School of
Cultural Studies.

Janet Wilson,
Reader in English,
School of Cultural Studies,
University College Northampton,
Northampton NN2 7AL.