Date(s): Oct 31st Nov 1st, 2011
Location: Miami, Florida
Description:
Conference Theme: Magical Realism and the Fantastic have been associated with Latin American texts because of the recurrent presence of ghosts, monsters, orishas and spirits originating from pre-colonial civilizations. However, Peninsular culture has also produced esperpentos that signaled the presence of evil both within our own humanity and the Christian and Romantic western ideologies to which we bore allegiance. This conference aims to create a semiotic study of these representations in the Hispanic culture. Could these symbolic narratives form part of an underside to our history?
Proposal deadline:
May 1st 2011 by email
Additional information:
Send a one-page abstract (Spanish or English) to zclark@FMUNIV.EDU
Deadline for publication of select papers in Hispanet Journal: June 1st 2011
Visit: www.hispanetjournal.com
Keynote Speakers: “The Ghostly Exiled and the Exiled Ghost”
Daína Chaviano, Cuban writer in Florida
Tomás Piard, filmmaker in Cuba
Co-sponsored by:
Foreign Language Program of Florida Memorial University
Modern Language Organization of Graduate Students of
Florida International University
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