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Writing Away From Home: Translocation and Text
Postgraduate Conference
University of Glasgow
Saturday 30th November 2002
UPDATED INFORMATION:
- Deadline Extended until 20th October 2002.
- Professor Robert Hampson, confirmed as a plenary speaker.
Call for Papers
Writing Away From Home: Translocation and Text
Postgraduate Conference
University of Glasgow
Saturday 30th November 2002
Geographical transposition has been a crucial impetus and inspiration from
the earliest years of travel and exploration up to the present day. We invite
proposals for papers addressing literary texts that engage with the
experience of translocation, from any period or culture. We hope that the
conference will provide a space for exchange between developing areas of
literary scholarship in identity and geography. Professor Susan Castillo,
University of Glasgow and Professor Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway
University of London are confirmed for plenary sessions. Dr. Nick Selby,
University of Glasgow is confirmed for panel chair.
Possible topics for discussion might be:
- Exile and/or Captivity as impetus or inspiration (e.g. Ovid, Bradstreet,
Rowlandson)
- Not writing in the mother tongue, (e.g. Conrad)
- 'First' and 'Second' generation immigrant literature (e.g. Singer, Malamud)
- (Post)Colonial literature (e.g. John Smith, Kipling, Rushdie)
- Construction of the homeland (e.g. Tan)
- Expatriate movements and coteries (e.g. Imagism, Dada)
- Issues of genre in translocational literature (e.g. Swift).
Abstracts (300 words) for twenty-minute papers, and panel proposals (three
participants) should be sent to [log in to unmask] by
20th October 2002.
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