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ACLA Panel: "Literary Border-Crossings" (Washington)

Publié le par Aurelien Maignant (Source : Ioana V. Pribiag)

ACLA Panel: "Literary Border-Crossings" (Washington)

 

Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 

 

PRESENTATION

What is the place of the literary today and what kinds of displacements are actively transforming this mode of expression? Prompted by these simultaneously aesthetic and sociopolitical questions, this seminar provides a space for dialogue among scholars working with contemporary texts or cultural practices that reflect on the nature and mutations of the literary and its entanglements. Perhaps because of its porous borders and ability to distance the familiar, literature has long been a privileged medium for expressing alienation, dispossession, and exile.

But the literary also generates its own modes of alterity, hybridity, and nomadism. In dislodging language, it destabilizes identity categories as much as the category of identity itself. We seek work that is concerned with literary border-crossings, exploring both tropes of dislocation and moments or places in a text when literary boundaries blur, dissolve, or bleed into other media and linguistic domains.

 

AXIS

We are interested as much in formal dislocations as in original thematic approaches. Possible paths of reflection include new media and modes of experimentation; intertextuality and cross-linguistic contamination; migrant narratives and spaces of transition; queer and posthuman subjectivities. How do contemporary border-crossing texts make visible certain aesthetic and political boundaries, norms, hierarchies and oppositions that are otherwise taken for granted? And what futures for literature do they point to now?

 

SUBMISSIONS

Paper submissions welcome through September 19 via the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/node/add/paper

The organizers will review and provisionally accept or decline your submission by Thursday, October 4th at 9am EST. The ACLA Program Committee will then review all seminar proposals during October and notify seminar organizers of acceptance or rejection on or around November 1st, 2018.