[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Imaginary Empires: Structural Dislocations and the Production of Alternative Spaces (11/1/06; ACLA, 4/19/07-4/22/07)

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CFP: American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference,
Puebla, Mexico: April 19-22, 2007

Seminar Title: "Imaginary Empires: Structural Dislocations and the
Production of Alternative Spaces"

Deadline for Submission of Paper Proposal: November 1, 2006

Please note: in order to be considered for inclusion, all paper
proposals must be submitted directly to the ACLA website,
<http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/>.

Seminar Organizers: Marc Caplan,The Johns Hopkins University, and Sara
Nadal, University of Pennsylvania
E-mail contact (queries only, no submissions): < acaplan4 at jhu.edu>

Description: The relationship between narrative form and the
construction of national identity­the ways in which literary communities
construct national identity, as well as the dependence of nationalist
ideologies on narratives of the state ­has been a given in literary
studies and related disciplines since at least the publication of
Benedict Anderson's _Imagined Communities._ This seminar will consider
the problem of narrative space in contexts of Diaspora, exile,
colonization, and related instances of individual or collective
dislocation, outside or beyond the formulation of the nation-state.

Topics to be considered include:

The construction of the metropolis as a transnational space
The uses of cosmopolitanism in the reconfiguration of national ideology
The imagining of national spaces from a position of exile
The function of minority languages in creating alternatives to dominant
national discourse
The reclaiming of ruins, ancient texts, and similar 'lost spaces' in an
alternative cartography of the nation
The problem or potentiality of transnational imperial (Roman, Iberian,
Hapsburg, Ottoman, etc) identities
The role of partition in the creation of multiple national affiliations
The deterritorialization of language in situations of cultural contact
The portrayal of the immigrant in post-nationalist discourse.

With this panel we hope to reconfigure supposedly fixed political
identities in order to open them to alternative productions of
collective but non-hegemonic spaces. Researchers in all periods and
languages encouraged to apply.


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