CALL FOR PAPERS--NEMLA 2000 Conference April 6-8 in Buffalo,NY
Requesting papers for a panel entitled:
"'German' Literature Contested"
This panel aims to discuss texts by migrant writers born and/or raised in
German-speaking countries that contest the artificial separation of
"migrant literature" from "German Literature."
Although the social and cultural backgrounds of ethnic-minority writers
vary greatly in the German-speaking countries, they share a common
experience: the ghettoization and exoticization of their texts.
"Migrantenliteratur" began to appear in a sudden profusion in the 1980s and
was then primarily published in anthologies. Publishers were thus implying
that migrants from various ethnic backgrounds spoke in a collective voice.
Today the second and third generations of migrant writers struggle to be
recognized as writers in their own right, not as representatives of the
"other" culture. Although some of these writers like Emine Sevgi Özdamar,
who won the Ingeborg Bachmann prize in 1991, seem to have gained that
recognition, their literature is often ghettoized, that is, valued for its
alleged ethnic content. In this session, we propose to discuss the various
ways in which these writers contest the artificial separation of "migrant
literature" from "German"/"Swiss"/"Austrian" literature and consequently
the notion of the "German" canon.
Please send 2-page abstracts or papers 8-10 pages long (15-20 minutes) by
SEPTEMBER 15 to
Prof. Petra Fachinger
Dept. of German Language and Literature
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
K7L 3N6
Canada
Fax: (613) 533-6930
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Many questions concerning the conference itself can be answered by the
NEMLA website at http://www.anna-maria.edu/nemla
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