KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:José Rabasa, U C Berkeley & Gonzalo Portocarrero Maisch, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

This conference will interrogate the ways in which conventionalized modes of discourse–Bakhtin refers to them as speech genres or utterances which “reflect the specific conditions and goals of each...area [of human activity]”--in colonial Latin America and in Spain elaborate and endorse master narratives on race, religion or sex, as well as those writings which deconstruct such institutionally-endorsed versions of reality.

One-page abstracts are invited on: Chronicles and relaciones, rhetoric, historiography, poetry, prose fiction, drama, legislative and ecclesiastic documents, translations and transcriptions, public and private letters, etc. Proposals for panels may also be submitted consisting of one-page abstracts from each of the participants.