CALL FOR PAPERS
Revolutionary Language
Tufts University
Medford, MA October 20, 2000
(Abstracts/Proposals Due: June 30, 2000)
This conference seeks to explore the various ramifications and
permutations of revolutionary language. We welcome individual
papers, group submissions, and panel proposals from all fields which
engage innovative approaches to form, theory, author studies, the
canon or canons, or history. We're also interested in papers or
panels that seek to interrogate revolutionary methods and
perspectives in imaginative, scientific, scholarly, or popular
writing. Presentations should be 20-25 minutes. Possible topics may
include, but are not limited to:
Queering Language in Theory and Practice
I/Eye: Revolutions of the Self
Revolutions in Narrative/Dramatic/Poetic Form
New Women/New Men: Revolutions of Gender
Hybridity
Language of Excess: Slippage and Overflow
Building with Words: Utopias/Dystopias
Genres of Resistance
Reinventing the Lexicon
Languages of Technology: The Industrial and/or Information
Revolution
Authorial Revolutions
Mobilizing People: Literacy and/or the Propaganda of Revolution
Race/Ethnicity and Language
Rhetoric of the 60s
Counter-Revolutions/Underground Culture
To participate please a send brief (300-500 words), double spaced
abstract of your panel proposal, individual paper or group submission
by June 30, 2000. Abstracts may be submitted via regular mail,
email (in the body of the email, not as an attachment), or fax.
Conference Co-Chairs: Nicole Aljoe & Tiffany Magnolia
Revolutionary Language Conference
Department of English
East Hall
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
phone: (617) 627-3459
fax: (617) 627-3606
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