[Discussion] CFP: Local and Global: Textual Migration and Translation (South Africa) (2/28/06; 7/9/06-7/12/06)

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From: "Roux Daniel <droux@sun.ac.za>" <droux@sun.ac.za>

Forging the Local and the Global
9-12 July 2006
University of Stellenbosch
Western Cape, South Africa

Starting with the assumption that identity and sense of place are matters of
forging and of forgery, the conference seeks to examine literary and other modes
of cultural production as forms of flow and exchange in the arena of global
apartheid. The conference implicates the discursive practices that articulate
unequal relations and disjunctive temporalities between different localities,
and alludes to the practices of translating across cultures. In particular, it
seeks to conceptualise the role of literature and the visual arts in tracing and
mapping the cartographies, movements and fault lines of past imperialisms and of
contemporary empire with its new forms of sovereignty. The conference invokes
location, this place and elsewhere, and movement, journeys from one location to
another, from homeland to foreign land. It raises issues of identity and of
agency, and gestures towards the body as locus of inscriptions that are both
culturally specific and, increasingly, transcultural. We hope that the focus
areas - global apartheid, human and textual traffic, travel records, literary
canonization - will assist us in understanding our interlinked histories, as
well as our imagined presents and futures.

The conference theme reflects the location of Stellenbosch University near the
southern tip of Africa, within sight of Table Mountain, at the point of
intersecting trade routes between east and west.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

Global Apartheid, Perpetual War: Bodies and Biopolitics
Migrations of Texts: Sites of Production and Reception
Crossing Borders in Literature and Visual Arts
The Challenges of Translation, Transculturalism, Tricontinentalism
Travel-Writing, Trade-Routes and Slave-Routes
International Reading Publics and the Creation of a South African Canon

Panels:
Proposals for panels, seminars and workshops will be welcome.

Keynote speakers:
There will be five keynote speakers from several countries. Their names will be
made public as soon as their participation has been confirmed.

Abstracts of 300 words (including institutional affiliation and contact
information) by 28 February 2006 to Local/Global Conference Organizing
Committee, English Department, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1,
Matieland, 7602 South Africa, or email Karlien van der Schyff:
global_at_sun.ac.za



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