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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:08:18 -0700
From: Stefan Seum <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: NEMLA 2000 Call for Papers
>Dear Wiggies,
I am sending this call for papers out to the WiG list for Petra Fachinger.
Jennifer Hosek
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>CALL FOR PAPERS--NEMLA 2000 Conference April 6-8 in
>Buffalo,NY
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>Requesting papers for a panel entitled:
>"'German' Literature Contested"
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>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."
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>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.
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>"Migrantenliteratur," the term commonly used for literature by
>ethnic-minority writers in German-speaking countries, began to appear in a
>sudden profusion in the 1980s and was then primarily published in
anthologies.
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>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 Oezdamar,
>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.
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>Please send abstracts (e-mail, fax, or post) by Sept. 15, 1999 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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>Please note: Jennifer Hosek will be chairing an officially distinct, but
>thematically linked session: "The Literature of the GDR/East Germany and of
>'Minority' Cultures." Inquiries should be directed to her at:
>Jennifer Ruth Hosek
>Dept. of Comparative Literature
>Dwinelle Hall
>U.C. Berkeley
>Berkeley, CA 94720
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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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Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Comparative Literature
Dwinelle Hall
U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642-2629
Causality is a concept not subject to empirical demonstration.
- David Hume (1711-1776)
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