[Discussion] CFP: The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature (Turkey) (2/20/06; 4/19/06-4/21/06)

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From: "Oya Berk - Halic Univ." <halic2006@yahoo.com>

CFP

The Theory and Practice of Life Writing:
Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature (Turkey)
(4/19/06-4/21/06)

We are inviting 20-minute papers for a symposium to be held by Halic University
in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 April 2006 on the subject of the modern self in and
as writing.

What does it mean to transform the self &#65533; or oneself &#65533; into
writing in a modern or postmodern world? This symposium will focus on the theory
and practice of
auto/biographical writing from the end of the 19th century until today, and on
its many genres and sub-genres; from memoirs to family histories to travelogues.
Along the way, some of the following questions may be addressed: How do
auto/biographies reflect cultural differences? What are the strategies employed
by authors to turn their lives into narrative? Is there an ethics of
auto/biography? Is all writing in some sense autobiographical?

Additional sub-genres and topics may include:
-Auto/biography and gender studies
-Ethnic auto/biography
-Auto/biographical novel/poetry/drama
-Disability/disease auto/biography
-The (in)significance of the body in auto/biographies
-Concepts of nationhood and history in auto/biography, memoirs and travelogues
-Creation of cultural and/or collective memory through life writing
-Film as auto/biography
-Use of photograph and other media in auto/biography
-Exile and diaspora
-Childhood
-Postcolonial auto/biography
-Auto/biography and psychoanalytic theory

Selected contributors will be invited to expand their papers into essays to be
published in a collection.

More information / abstract submission (one-page abstract of your paper and a
brief curriculum vitae by 20 February 2006): halic2006_at_yahoo.com

We are looking forward to your proposals and hope to see you here in Istanbul.

The Organizing Committee
Halic University
Department of American Culture and Literature
Istanbul, Turkey




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