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This seminar seeks to explore some of the many ways in which the question of gender "crosses" the question of the foreign(er) or the other. In what ways can, or must, questions of gender be thought across geographic and linguistic boundaries? In what ways can, or must, the question of the foreign be understood as a gender(ed) question? How might a comparativist framework help us to better consider the possibilities and limits of such "crossings"? We invite papers from a variety of theoretical perspectives, addressing written or visual texts from any cultural tradition(s), genre(s), or period(s). Those that focus on texts written in languages other than English will be especially welcome. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
• chiasms: the woman as foreigner, the foreigner as woman
• gendered spaces / foreign spaces / other spaces
• gender and/in political formations; gender and/in the state, nation, or empire; gender and/in postcolonialities
• gender and cosmopolitanism; transnational feminism; women\’s networks and alliances across national, cultural, linguistic, or disciplinary boundaries
• problematizing boundary-crossings; encounters across geographic and/or gender(ed) borders; cross-dressing and gender transgression
• translation and circulation; "women's world literature"; literature by women in the world literature / comparative literature classroom
Paper proposals should be submitted via the ACLA website no later than November 12, 2010 (note extended deadline): http://www.acla.org/acla2011/?page_id=33.
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