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Postcolonial Translocations. 20th annual GNEL / ASNEL Conference
| Location: | Germany |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-09-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-06-10 |
| Announcement ID: |
162761 |
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C.F.P. Postcolonial Translocations
20th annual GNEL/ASNEL Conference
University of Muenster, Germany
21-24 May 2009
Postcolonialists read contemporary and historical texts across disparate geographic and temporal spaces. In the context of globalisation and neo-imperialisms, not only unequal development and political instability but also violence and gender inequality continue to shape complex postcolonial realities; nation and narration, place and displacement, location and migration remain major paradigms of postcolonial critique. The postcolonial lexicon clearly indicates our concern with placement, movement and interconnection. But arguably our understanding of what constitutes a specific location has dramatically changed over the last few decades and requires reading practices which reflect the communicative, political and aesthetic concerns of translocal representation. The growing body of texts which – linguistically, aesthetically, and thematically – draw on and combine distinct cultural repertoires is an indication of the increasing relevance of postcolonial translocations today.
Under the sign of translocation, understood not only as a simple 'change of location' or 'dislocation', but also as a new kind of location, a trans-location consisting of fractured and variously connected spaces, this conference promotes a critical evaluation of postcolonial texts and media whilst also investigating their institutional academic contexts. Possible topics for papers and panels include
• Border regimes and border-crossings
• Imagining translocal space
• Representations of forced and voluntary relocations
• (incl. slavery, indentureship, transportation, migration)
• Postcolonial cultural transformations
• Authority and authenticity in postcolonial texts
• Transmigration
• Translation and translocation
• Translocal food and its representations
• Moving species: Biological transfers
• Online writing, online reading
• Cyber diasporas
• Diaspora literature
• Travel writing
• Academic locations and reallocations of Postcolonial Studies
• 20 years on: GNEL/ASNEL and its institutional locations
You can email abstracts of papers (20 minutes) or proposals for panels comprising three papers (90 minutes)
to the following address: gnel2009@gmail.com
The first call for papers will close on 30 September 2008.
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Mark Stein
Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
Johannisstr. 12-20
D-48143 Muenster, Germany
++49 251 832 4593
www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/ptts
Email: gnel2009@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.gnel2009.de
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