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This year, we invite you to join us in the discussion of our theme by submitting academic papers pertaining to our conference’s theme of rebirth, regeneration and re-emergence. We ask that papers be 8-10 double spaced pages for presentations lasting 15-20 minutes. We invite papers in Spanish, English, Italian, French and Catalan. Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words to our conference chair, Katie Lyle, at lylek@bc.edu by Jan. 15.
Keynote speaker: Mary Baine Campbell of Brandeis University
We invite papers dealing with the following topics but certainly encourage interdisciplinary submissions:
Reshaping of gender/gender roles
Restructuring relationships between word and image
Reimagining / rewriting texts
Resurfacing of literary genres and styles
Intertextuality / intratextuality /
metatextuality
Transformation in travel literature
Repurposing oral tradition
Parody / satire in literature
Reoccurrence and repetition in history/ historicity / historiography and literature
Memory/ dreams/ reincarnation
Immigration / emigration / migration / Diaspora
Reformation of identity (national, ethnic or personal)
Recurring symbols
Recycling of texts
Society of the Spectacle
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