[Discussion] Fwd: CFP: Blowing Up the Margins (grad) (7/20/05; 10/7/05-10/8/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Jes Battis <jbattis@fastmail.fm>

Call for Papers: "Blowing Up" the Margins

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date: October 7 & 8, 2005
Submission deadline: July 20, 2005


What gets included in the category of literature? What doesn&#65533;t, 
and why?
What is lost and what is gained through the exclusion of certain texts, of
certain modes of inquiry?  What gets theorized and what gets 
trivialized? How
are the lines drawn and who draws them? How do we talk about marginalized
literatures without invoking binaries and boundaries, without inscribing 
them?

The graduate students of Simon Fraser University's English Department 
invite you
to submit an abstract for "Blowing Up" the Margins. The term "blowing up" is
used here in all of its connotations: as a disquieting site of 
disruption and
deconstruction, an expansion, magnification and explosion. These images echo
legacies of violence (epistemological, structural, discursive, and 
material) and
the possibility of renewal and reconstruction. This conference aims to
critically explore those texts and ideas which have traditionally been 
relegated
to a space conceived of as outside academia. We ask therefore for papers and
creative presentations that address marginalized texts, and/or traditional
literatures from marginalized perspectives. Potential topics might 
include, but
are not limited to:

fantasy and speculative fiction
children&#65533;s literature
comic books/manga
pop culture
queer lit/theory
erotica/romance lit
detective fiction
horror/-gothic
TV/video games
interactive media
minority writing
mixed-media prose & poetics
spoken word/music lyrics
women&#65533;s and/or gendered writing
oral narratives
collaborative works
hypertext and blogs
fanfiction
legacies of marginalization

While the above list aims to interrogate the marginalized status of certain
texts and theories in academia, we also welcome critical papers and
conversations about normative categories and spaces, such as masculinity,
whiteness, and heterosexuality (to name but a few examples) in an attempt to
smudge the lines between what is considered traditional and what is 
considered
marginal in our departments.

Please send 200-250 word proposals by July 20th, 2005 to gradconf@sfu.ca.
Presentations will be 15 to 20 minutes in length (8 pages) and proposals 
must
include your title, name, contact information (e-mail, address, home and 
work
number), equipment needs, abstract and a small bio.
---

  jes battis
  phd candidate (sshrc)
  sfu dept of english
  jbattis@fastmail.fm
  http://www.sfu.ca/~jbattis



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