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Crosscurrents: Navigating the Mainland and the Margins in U.S. Ethnic Literatures
MELUS 20th Annual Conference
| Location: | Florida, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2005-11-18 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2005-11-07 |
| Announcement ID: |
148507 |
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For the 20th Annual MELUS conference, we invite paper abstracts and complete panel, workshop, and roundtable proposals on all aspects of multiethnic literatures of the United States. We especially encourage those that engage the conference theme to discuss issues of race, gender, class and sexuality. Crosscurrents celebrates the 20th anniversary of the MELUS conference by emphasizing the theoretical ebbs and flows that emerge from placing U.S. Ethnic literatures into conversation with each other. This anniversary provides us with the opportunity to reflect upon the history of comparative work within U.S. Ethnic literatures in addition to examining how the center and the margins are being redefined within U.S. literatures as a whole.We offer the following as suggestions:
routes and shipwrecks of transnational politics
diasporas of violence, ethnic cleansing and refugee communities
body trafficking, displaced and misplaced bodies
assimilationist and oppositional movements
marginal voices within cultural exchanges
circulations of cultural production (music, film, literature, visual art)
narratives of resistance and re-imagi(nation)
pedagogical meditations on teaching the crosscurrents
All abstracts and proposals (250 words) should be submitted in duplicate. We ask that submissions detail requests for specific audiovisual equipment. We also strongly encourage proposals of complete panels, roundtables, and workshops that should include a brief description and abstracts for individual speakers.
Dates: April 27-30, 2006
Host: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letter, Florida Atlantic University (Renaissance Hotels & Resorts, Boca Raton, FL)
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Please mail abstracts to Professors Sika Dagbovie and Elena Machado Sáez, Department of English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431. Submissions by email should be forwarded to Heather Schriefer. [Fax for international submissions only: (561) 297-3807.
Email: hschrief@fau.edu
Visit the website at http://www.boisestate.edu/english/melus/annual.html
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