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Call for Papers: 'Ivan Vladislaviæ and the South African literary
imagination'
A panel in the literature stream of the African Studies Association UK
(ASAUK) 2014 conference
9-11 September 2014
Conference details: http://www.asauk.net/conferences/asauk14.shtml
<http://www.asauk.net/conferences/asauk14.shtml>
This panel proposes an exploration of the multiple meanings of literary
'work' that may emerge from a study of the career of South African author
and editor Ivan Vladislaviæ.
Vladislaviæ has played various roles, and occupied a range of institutional
spaces, in the development of South African literary culture. In the 1980s,
as fiction and social studies editor for Ravan Press and as assistant editor
for the groundbreaking Staffrider magazine, Vladislaviæ was involved in the
editing and publication of writers, black and white, who were openly hostile
to the apartheid state. Through the late 1980s and to date, his reputation
has grown, nationally and internationally, as a preeminent writer of
post-apartheid South Africa, with a remarkably attenuated appreciation of
urban Johannesburg. Throughout this period Vladislaviæ has worked with both
prominent and new writers across a range of genres as a highly sought after
freelance editor, as well as with architects, urbanists, photographers and
artists, on projects that typically seek to reframe the ways in which
everyday life in South Africa is perceived, imagined and lived.
As well as considering the ways in which existing material - ranging from
the textual matter of the urban everyday to a host of literary and artistic
intertexts - is variously worked on, worked through and re-worked, and so
potentially transformed by Vladislaviæ's writing, the panel is interested in
examinations of the kinds of 'work' that are performed by and through his
range of working methods. This idea of 'literary work' will enable an
exploration of Vladislaviæ's oeuvre in light of South African aesthetic
production, print cultures and the book market. We therefore welcome
proposals that may look to explore, although need not be limited to:
* Vladislaviæ and anglophone literary culture, within South Africa, and
without;
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* Book design and marketing: production and publication;
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* Intertextuality, literary labour and the world literary system;
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* Vladislaviæ and the 'post-': the postcolonial; the postmodern; the
postapartheid, including the politics of transition;
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* Involvement and imbrication in other forms of cultural production: art,
photography, architecture;
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* Exploding genre: documentary and social realism, short stories and novels,
essays and creative non-fiction, art criticism;
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* Vladislaviæ's literary modes and techniques;
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* Vladislaviæ as a major 'South African voice': reflections on the cultural
'work' of the writer; cultural intermediaries and the transformation of the
South African literary field;
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* The politics of ordinariness: the banal versus the spectacular; surface
versus depth;
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* Urban semiotics and poetics: the Afropolitan and African urban.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted directly to the
panel organisers Katie Reid (Sussex [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) and Dr James Graham (Middlesex
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) by March 28th 2014.
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