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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:13:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Conference on Chicano Culture (Call for Papers) (fwd)




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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:52:36 -0700
From: Javier Rangel <jrangel-AT-ucla.edu>
To: spoon-announcements-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Conference on Chicano Culture (Call for Papers)

The Author, The Critic, and The Public:
Critical Theory and Chicano Culture.

Conference
on Chicano Culture
May 1997
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CALL FOR PAPERS

=09
=09This is a call for papers for a research conference entitled:  =B3The
Author, The Critic, and The Public:  Critical Theory and Chicano
Culture=B2, to be held on May 1997 at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA). The conference seeks to explore the many  ideas, trends,
and currents that have helped shape Chicano culture during the last
twenty years. It expects to shed light into the way Chicano Culture is
produced and interpreted by the various communities of which it is a
mode of expression and reflection. The conference treats theoretical and
artistic thought as key forms of cultural practice in the evolution of
new forms of cultural identity.  Bringing together scholars as well as
representatives of Chicano artistic movements, the conference will
integrate modes of scholarly discussions with modes of artistic
expression. The conferences will accept contributions that address the
following themes and/or issues in literature, theater, film, and the
arts:
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=09=09=09=09*  Chicano Cultural Identity
=09=09=09=09*  Critical theory and the interpretation of Chicano culture
=09=09=09=09*  The =8CCulture Industries=B9 and Chicano Culture
=09=09=09=09*   The Chicano Artist and his Public (s)
=09=09=09=09*   Hybridity, Transculturation and the Chicano subjectivity
=09=09=09=09*   The Critic as Artist / The Artist as Critic
=09=09=09=09*   Literary Culture and Oral Chicano traditions
=09=09=09=09*   Aztl=E1n / The Borderland as Artistic and Theoretical Metaphors=09=09=09=09=09=09
=09=09=09=09*  Chicano Culture, Public Culture, and Public Fantasies
=09=09=09=09*  Representations of Popular and Mass Chicano Culture
=09=09=09=09*  Representations of Chicano Culture in Mexico
=09=09=09=09*  (Post)modern / (Post)colonial discourse and Chicano discourse
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THEORETICAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES ARE ESPECIALLY WELCOMED


Papers may be written in Spanish or English.  Suggestions for special
sessions and roundtables relevant to these themes will also be
considered (reading time:  20 minutes).  Please send a one page abstract
of papers or proposals accompanied by a title page with the author=B9s
name, address, phone number, and e-mail no later than February 14, 1997
to:

Javier Rangel / Eleuteria Hern=E1ndez
Conference on Chicano Culture
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1532




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