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Subject: Lives Lived in Theory: Autocritical
Interventions in Life
Writing
(11/15/05; ACCUTE, 4/27/06-4/30/06)
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CFP: Lives Lived in Theory: Autocritical Interventions
in Life Writing
What interests me today is not strictly called either
'literature'
or 'philosophy'... 'autobiography' is perhaps the
least
inadequate name.
--Jacques Derrida
For a proposed panel at the 2006 Congress, we invite
papers that
address
aspects of critical theory as it is inscribed in
autobiography, or
papers
which address autobiography as theory. We are
particularly interested
in
papers that address memoir and
autobiographical narratives which arise from or speak
to the
theoretical
foci of our discipline (Literary, Feminist, Queer,
Psychoanalytical,
Aesthetic, Postcolonial, Trauma, etc.) of Cultural
Studies, broadly
defined, or the experiences of
literary/cultural production. This might include
autobiographical
narrative as theory, theory as autobiography, accounts
of the scholarly
life, etc.
What interests us, here, then, are those
autobiographies which are
themselves of theoretical import to the discipline, or
which develop
insights into the theory which they frame or from
which they arise.
Typically, autobiographical discourse deals
explicitly with subject formation, but we are seeking
papers which
illuminate the ways in which "theory" and
"autobiography" mediate these
subjectivities. In what ways does the
autobiographical narrative,
mitigate, translate or inscribe the theoretical
concerns of the author. Sara Suleri's
autobiographical memoir,
Meatless
Days, can be read productively as a dialogue with
postcolonial theory,
especially given her problematization of the identity
category
"postcolonial woman" in "Woman Skin Deep." Eve
Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogue on Love is a profound
narrative on the
ways
in which her academic life and theoretical investments
mediate her
experience of the body in extremis. Kate Bornstein's
Gender Outlaw and
My
Gender Workbook are not only
autobiographical accounts of coming to terms with the
inadequacies of
gender theory, but by means of autobiography, they
have made an
inestimable
contribution to the theory of Queer.
Please submit a proposal of no more than 500 words by
November 15, 2005
to
the email address below. A copy of the abstract and
bio-note, must
also be
submitted. For electronic submissions, ACCUTE prefers
MS Word
attachments. Proposals should be
300-500 words in length, and should clearly indicate
the originality or
scholarly significance of the pro-posed paper, the
line of argument,
the
principal texts the paper will speak to, and the
relation of the paper
to
existing scholarship on the topic.
A "Works Cited" section must also be included.
Please Note: Submitters must be ACCUTE members in
good standing.
ACCUTE
will not forward submissions to a second vettor unless
submitters are
current ACCUTE members.
Dr. Jennifer Gustar
Associate Professor, English and Women's Studies
University of British Columbia Okanagan
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Dr. Janet MacArthur
Associate Professor, English
University of British Columbia Okanagan
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Jennifer J. Gustar, PhD
Associate Professor
English and Women's Studies
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
University of British Columbia Okanagan
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office:(250) 807-9384; hm:(250)-762-9194
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Dr Kip Jones
Reader in Health Related Social Science
Centre for Qualitative Research
Institute of Health & Community Studies
Bournemouth University United Kingdom
Website: www.kipworld.net
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