Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 09:21:57 -0500
From: Amritjit Singh <asingh-AT-ric.edu> (by way of radhika gajjala <radhik-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu>)
Subject: 


ANNOUNCING THE FIRST BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE NEW 
U.S. Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
(USACLALS)
Topic: GLOBAL PERCEPTIONS AND INTERSECTIONS
May 5 - 6, 2000
Providence, Rhode Island
Co-hosted by Rhode Island College and Bryant College

We welcome proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtable
discussions on all postcolonial literatures - including those of Africa,
Asia, the Caribbean, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.  In addition,
we invite proposals that reach beyond the literatures of the British
Commonwealth to use comparative frameworks in relation to francophone
literatures, ethnic American literatures, and African-American
literature.  The long-term goal of our chapter is to study postcolonial
literatures in relationship to the varied and vital contexts of the
Americas.  USACLALS encourages innovative and informal styles of
presentation for the upcoming conference.  You may read papers, but you
may also propose other formats (such as roundtables).  The following is
a suggestive but not exhaustive list of topics for individual papers,
panels, and roundtable discussion sessions: 

· Connections Between Postcolonial Studies and U. S. Ethnic Discourse(s)
· Representations of Colonial Experience in "Commonwealth" Literature
· Resisting Globalization and Cultural Hegemony 
· Postcolonial Studies and Pedagogy (Challenges of Teaching Postcolonial
Texts to U.S. Students)
· Individual Writers (e.g., Salman Rushdie; Maragret Atwood; Ngugi wa
Thiong'o; Anita Desai; Nadine Gordimer; Wole Soyinka; Patrick White;
Jamaica Kincaid; Bapsi Sidhwa)
· The "Black Atlantic" and the "Asian Pacific"
· Images of Africa and the Caribbean in "Canonical" U. S. Literature
(e.g., Hemingway, Bellow, O'Neill)
· Bollywood and South Asian Cinema
· Africa Cinema
· Hollywood's Representations of Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean
· Settler Colonies Versus Indigenous Peoples
· Exile and Diaspora

Send a 300 word proposal or abstract by March 30, 2000 to:
Daniel M. Scott, Chair, Program Committee, USACLALS Conference, English
Dept., Rhode Island College, 600 Mt. Pleasant Ave., Providence, RI
02908; (email) dscott-AT-ric.edu; (phone) 401-456-8679; (fax) 401-456-8379
or 8204.   Conference registration fees are $30 faculty/ $10 students,
retired and adjunct faculty.  Presenters must be members of USACLALS
($25 faculty; $10 students, retired and adjunct faculty).  Send
membership fees to: Terri Hasseler, English Department, Bryant College,
Smithfield, RI 02917.  Make checks payable to: USACLALS.

A reading by writers from various "postcolonial" backgrounds will take
place at the formal luncheon May 6. Please contact Amritjit Singh,
President of USACLALS (asingh-AT-ric.edu; 401-456-8660), or Terri Hasseler,
Secretary of USACLALS (thassele-AT-bryant.edu; 401-232-6926) with
suggestions.  Other members of the Executive Board include: P.S.
Chauhan, Beaver College; Karen Chow, Univ. of Connecticut; Anita
Hellstrom, Univ. of Connecticut; Bruce Johnson, Univ. of Rhode Island;
Gita Rajan, Fairfield Univ.; Rajini Srikanth, Univ. of Massachusetts at
Boston.




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