This seems relevant to a lot of what we been talking about... RC
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> A World of Local Voices: English Language Poetry Today
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> Universität des Saarlandes
> Saarbrücken, Germany, October 22-23, 1999
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> Today, when the terms of "local vs. global," "center vs. periphery" are
> being re-thought and re-defined in all areas of knowledge, poetry, always
> the spear-head of the literary avantgarde, is one of these areas. Poetry,
> by definition intensely personal and local, but today increasingly global
> in its references, languages, and readership, thus awaits examination from
> premises other than purely nationally ori-ented ones. Similarly, when
> literature is no longer wielded as a weapon in the cultural battles of
> national states, redefinition of critical concepts is urgently needed. In
> the future, the term "local," for instance,
> would have to transcend national catego-ries, subsuming similar properties
> of the identifiably individualistic.
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> The common reference of this conference is poetry written in all the
> varieties of the English language, including translations.
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> We hope to be able to welcome several poets at the conference.
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> Please send your proposals for a presentation by March 15, 1999
> to
> Prof. Dr. Klaus Martens
> Nordamerikanische Literatur und Kultur
> FR. 8.3 Anglistik, Universität des Saarlandes
> PF 15 11 50
> 66041 Saarbrücken
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> If you have interest in a particular topic worth examining in more tan one
> presentation please send your suggestion to the address above a.s.a.p.
> Please also indicate whether you would
> like to chair the proposed session.
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