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) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 =09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09 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: =09=09=09=09 =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 =09=09=09=09 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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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