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'INSIDE THE WHALE: THE POSTCOLONIAL AND GLOBALISATION

SPECIAL PANEL: HOAXES, GLOBALISATION AND THE POSTCOLONIAL

to be held at the School of Cultural Studies, University College
Northampton.
Northampton, 11-13 July 2003

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

Selected papers from this panel will be published in a special edition
of
'World Literatures Written in English'.   Please send 300-500 word
proposals
by February 28th to finn.fordham@northampton.ac.uk

Research into hoaxes and literary scandals on the one hand and into
post-colonial theory and globalization on the other are distinct fields
of study that have seen little exchange, if any at all.  Why this might
be so is a fascinating question, especially when problems of identity
are central to both.  This panel will address this and other issues,
such
as.

-         Hoaxing cultural heritage - faking the past
-         The mask of ethnicity as hoax
-         the trickster figure as hoaxer - Anancy
-         What is a global hoax?
-         The Demidenko scandal
-         Rushdie's confession that his wife dictated 'The Satanic
Verses'
to him


Do new modes of communication and dissemination invite new forms of
hoaxing
that have a greater reach with more at stake, than ever before?   Does
hoaxing guarantee or require an outside which undermines the totalising
fantasies behind the 'one-world' dreamt of by the forces pursuing?
Hoaxing
has to be conscious: so is the suspicion of a global hoax at work part
of
the world of paranoia (is an unfulfillable threat an earnest hoax)?  If
we
point at global ideological formations (like certain religions) as
fraudulent - as large-scale hoaxes - is this a measure of a globalizing
paranoia?

If hoaxing thrives on - feeds off - an earnestness in discourse, then is

the time ripe for a hoax, perhaps in the Alan Sokal manner, of the more
solemn and serious wing of postcolonial writing, critical and otherwise?

Post-colonial theory may problematise identity, by attacking the still
prevalent stereotypes and constructions built up through colonization,
and by promoting hybridity.  It might do so through employing masks, or
ventiloqual strategies - what is the relation between the mask, the
ventriloquist and hoaxing?   What connections can be made between the
betrayal felt by a hoaxed audience, and betrayal as it may happen within

postcolonial societies?

Proposals in related areas will be considered for the panel.

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In addition, here is the Call for Papers for the conference, of which
the panel will form a part:

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:

=B7 New modes: the Gothic and Exotic
=B7 Post-Colonial Theory Now
=B7 Identities and Locations
=B7 Translating Cultures
=B7 Travel, Tourism and Terrorism
=B7 Networking the Postcolonial: Teaching and Publishing
=B7 Re-branding the Popular
=B7 Deterritorialised Nationalities
=B7 Asylum and Exile
=B7 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 <mailto: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,
Department of English,
School of Cultural Studies,
University College Northampton,
Northampton NN2 7AL.
WEBSITE: northampton.ac.uk/ass/cul/insidethewhale