[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Theorizing Occupation (10/1/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

The 16th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
Coastal Georgia Center, Savannah, GA

Conference website: http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/bcps
<http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/bcps>

 From the OED:

Occupation, n.
I.  Senses relating to space.

1. a. The action of taking or maintaining possession or control of a
country, building, land, etc., esp. by (military) force; an instance of
this; the period of such action; (also) the state of being subject to
such action.
2. a. The action or condition of residing in or holding a place or
position; actual possession; tenure; occupancy; a period of occupancy.

The rhetoric of postcolonial theory has shifted over the past decade,
particularly as literary scholars have broadened the field to examine
the implications of transnational and global identity on literary
production. Similarly, this panel seeks to draw on extant theoretical
perspectives like those expressed, for example, in works like Fawzia
Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks¹s edited collection The
Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies (Duke UP, 2000) to once again
reshape and re-examine postcolonial discourse by positioning readings of
military, social, cultural, and/or environmental occupation within a
postcolonial theoretical frame.

Essays that read the literatures of Afghanistan and Iraq as postcolonial ­
as well as essays that focus on literatures produced under other periods
of U. S. military occupation ­ are particularly encouraged, as are
essays that foreground an ecocritical analysis of occupation.
Consideration will also be given to essays that explore any aspect of
occupation that is depicted in literature that has traditionally been
considered postcolonial, as well as in literature that has never been
characterized by a postcolonial designation.

Please send abstracts (250 words) as email attachments by October 1, 2006to

Laura Wright
Assistant Professor
English Department
Western Carolina University
lwright at email.wcu.edu


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