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South Central Modern Language Association Call for Special Sessions: Hot

Springs, Arkansas 2003.  Abstracts invited for the following Speical
Session:

      ********  "Multicultural Borders - Cosmopolitan Crossings"
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This session will offer literary, political, and/or historical analyses
of
how multicultural differences, borders, and communities help, hinder,
and/or clarify a cosmoplitan world citizenship.  How can cosmopolitans
and
multiculturalists co-exist?  Can their theoretical positions reinforce
each other?  Although some multiculturalists have disparaged
cosmopolitanism as an empty elitism, others have deemed it a useful
defense against unwarranted national power.  Participants might
consider,
for example, how texts define a cosmopolitan personhood that transcends
national boundaries without being anti-nationalistic.  Or, conversely,
some submitters may want to focus on twentieth and twenty-first century
writers who see the exhaustion of certain forms of multiculturalism
leading to satire, burlesque, and cynicism.  Do such critiques help us
understand what a cosmopolitan political loyalty would look like in
relation to a multicultural one?  How do "hyphenated" contemporary
writers
approach these issues?  Can a "rooted" cosmopolitanism exist comfortably

with particular varieties of multiculturalism?

Send abstracts electronically or otherwise (no papers at this time,
please) and short vitas by Dec 15 to the following:

Lou Caton - lcaton@wisdom.wsc.ma.edu
fax: 413 562 3613
Westfield State College - English Department
577 Western Avenue
Westfield, MA 01086