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WITHIN LANGUAGE AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF EXPRESSION
Call for Papers
March 26-27, 2004
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
- Tension between struggle for autonomy and history of independence
- Desire of autochthony or hybridization: part of colonial origins
- Postmodernism: fiction or reality
- Exploring culture in relation to the Other
- Transformation of mass culture
- Monstrosity
- The modernity of postmodernism
- History and historical novel
- Systems of expression
- Rhetoric of imperialism and power
This list is meant to be suggestive rather than exhaustive. Papers on other topics related to the conference will be considered.
Proposals for papers, panels (3-4 papers) and roundtables are invited in all areas of Romance languages from all theoretical perspectives. Presentations will be limited to a reading time of 20 minutes (with an additional ten minutes for discussion). Abstracts must be submitted anonymously and should be no more than 250 words, counting references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, letter size 11/12. They must include an attached cover letter indicating the title, author’s name, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Proposals for panels should contain the title of each presentation and the above information for each participant. Papers may be read (and abstracts submitted) in Spanish, English, Italian and French. Submissions are accepted from graduate students only. There is limited lodging space available for presenters from out of town. E-mail and fax submissions are accepted. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.
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