Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 00:42:22 -0500 (EST)
From: egjob-AT-unity.ncsu.edu
To: foucault-AT-world.std.com
Subject: Conference Announcement


Requesting Submissions For a Graduate Student Conference at
North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

March 24-26, 1995

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Cultural Cartographies:
Mapping the Postcolonial Moment
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Postcolonial Theory is at a crossroads in both its 
academic and political receptions.  This conference 
intends to map interdisciplinary approaches to 
postcoloniality--textual, theoretical and political.  
Exploring problems of nationhood, ethnicity, 
historicity, intertextuality, and subjectivity will help 
us interrogate existing models of postcoloniality and, 
perhaps, devise alternative ones.

We welcome papers, creative manuscripts, and panel 
proposals that exhibit a variety of critical and literary 
engagements with postcolonial discourse.  Panels 
may be specific to a national or regional literature, to 
a single author or theorist, to political movements as 
they are refigured textually, to representations of 
gender and race, and to applicability of Eurocentric 
theory to non-Eurocentric texts.  Creative reading 
sessions may be organized by genre, by theme, and 
by formal strategies.

Conference features include a creative reading by 
novelist Bapsi Sidhwa, author of %Cracking India%, 
and an address by C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander, 
professor at Amherst College and research fellow at 
the National Humanities Center.  In addition, the 
best graduate student paper will receive a $100 prize, 
sponsored by %Postmodern Culture%.

Please email a detailed 1-2 page abstract by January 10, 1995 to:

Jonathan Beasley (egjob-AT-unity.ncsu.edu) 
or 
David Hatfield (baffle-AT-unity.ncsu.edu)

Please email creative work by January 10,1995 to:

Caitlin Cary (ccary-AT-unity.ncsu.edu)

Contact us by mail at:

English Department
Tompkins Hall, Box 8105
NCSU
Raleigh NC  27695-8105