Abstract Deadline: December 15th 2010
Email: complitconference@gmail.com
In 1799 Germaine de Stael wrote there are:
"two completely different kinds of literature... Southern and Northern... What I am going to call Southern literature includes the Greeks, the Romans, the Italians, the Spanish, and the French of Louis XIV's time. English works, German works, and a few writings of the Danes and Swedes must be classified as Northern, along with the literature that began with the Scottish bards, Icelandic fables, and Scandinavian poetry."For the 5th-Annual Coordinates of Comparison Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, we seek papers in world literature expanding and challenging Stael's notion
of a European 'Northern and Southern' to global points of intersection involving languages, literatures, cultures, economies, and nations.
Our conference invites you to explore and analyze this intellectual terrain from a variety of interdisciplinary critical perspectives. We invite papers for Remappings/Rereadings: Global Dialogues between East and West, North and South.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Occidentalism and/or Orientalism
Definitions of World Literature
National divides e.g., Western Canada/ Eastern Canada
International divides e.g., Northern Hemisphere/Southern Hemisphere
Indigenous Narratives, Histories, and Politics
Gender Crossings: Feminisms and Masculinities
Postcolonialism and Hybridity
Globalization and/or Transnationalism
Acts and Questions of Translations
Theory and Practice of Anthologizing Literature
Pop Culture on a Local, National or International Scale
Diaspora and the Centre-Periphery
Digital Divides and the Multi-Media Means of Communication
Religious Influences and Anxieties
Book History as a Comparative Methodology
Send abstracts of 200 words to complitconference@gmail.com In addition, presenters will be invited to submit revised papers of journal length for the January 2012 issue of Inquire, a peer-reviewed international graduate journal of comparative literature. Abstract Deadline is December 15th 2010.
