Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 18:15:39 -0400
Subject: CFP: Postcolonial Exile (10/10/02; 2/28/03-3/1/03)
From: "Patrick W. Bixby" <pbixby-AT-LearnLink.Emory.Edu>


Panel Proposal:
12th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference 
February 28-March 1, 2003 
The Courtyard Mariott and the Coastal Georgia Center in Historic Downtown
Savannah, GA 
Keynote Speaker: Romesh Gunesekera, Author of The Sandglass and Reef 

"Postcolonial Exile"

I am soliciting paper proposals for a panel investigating various notions of
"postcolonial exile."  Specific topics addressed in these 15-minute
presentations might include:

>Responses to Edward Said's seminal essay, "Reflections on Exile."
>Negotiations between Modernist conceptions of exile and postcolonial responses.
>Exile and its inflection through a postcolonial poetics.
>Exile in the age of globalization.

Other proposals dealing with migration, diaspora, and postcolonial displacement
will also be considered.

Please submit a one-page (250-300 words) abstract by Oct. 10, 2002.  All
submissions should be accompanied by the following information: name, academic
affiliation, mailing address and telephone numbers, paper title, and national
origin(s) and genre or work(s), text(s) discussed.  E-mail is preferred
(pbixby-AT-emory.edu). 


Patrick Bixby
English Department
Emory University
N302 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
U.S.A.
email: pbixby-AT-emory.edu







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