Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:16:31 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9n=E9dicte?= Ledent <B.Ledent-AT-ulg.ac.be>
Subject: CFP: Injustice & Insubordination - Antwerp (Belgium): 24-26




Congress Announcement and Call for Papers

Society for Caribbean Research
Antwerp, Belgium
24-26 September 2003

8th Interdisciplinary Congress
Postcolonial Research Group
University of Antwerp

Injustice & Insubordination: the Caribbean writer as "Warrior of the Imaginary"

Injustice & Insubordination: l'auteur caribéen comme
"Guerrier de l'imaginaire"

Injusticia e insubordinaci=F3n: el escritor caribe=F1o como "Guerrero de lo
imaginario"

Onrecht & insubordinatie: de Caribische auteur als
"Krijger van het imaginaire"

"One of the most obvious tasks of literature, poetry, and art is to gradually
lead humans to the unconscious acknowledgement that the other is not the enemy,
that difference does not erode me, that if I change in my contact with the
other, it does not mean that I dilute myself in him . . . It is no longer
dreaming the world, but entering it." (Edouard Glissant)

"We are in the intermediate space between tumults and collapses that should
give birth to new values and other social systems through dynamics we cannot
even imagine." (Patrick Chamoiseau)

The Society for Caribbean Research and the Postcolonial Research Group at the
University of Antwerp invite you to think about the writer as "warrior of the
imaginary," that is on the author / artist who uses an unheard-of dynamic to
react against "ethnocentrism, enclosed identities, ethnic cleansing,
narrow-minded nationalism, sectarian and fanatical fears." (Chamoiseau). What,
then, is this new dynamic? What does this new imaginary consist in? Are we,
readers and critics alike, obliged to rethink the raison d'=EAtre as well as the
significance of post-colonial cultures in the Caribbean and elsewhere? Is the
role taken on by Chamoiseau also echoed in other writers who fight new
injustices and urge to rebellion against new oppressive forces at a time when
the world has gone global and inequalities are exacerbated? What is the new
order now that the struggle is no longer waged between the former colonizer and
the former colonized, now that we no longer read along such simplistic, binary
lines as black vs white, man vs woman?
       
We would also like to address those areas of Caribbean studies that have been
less often explored, such as the writings of the Dutch-speaking authors from
the Caribbean, cross-cultural translation, and socio-linguistics.


Panels are planned on the following topics:

I. Injustice and insubordination:
- "Warrior of the Imaginary"
- New York City After: reflections of (a) Caribbean author(s)
- Hispanolia/Quisqueya: conflict or concord?

II. Divergent creolities
- Literature from the Dutch-speaking area
- Cross-cultural translation
- Socio-linguistics
- "Coolitude"
- Condici=F3n cangrejera
- Gender politics and rethinking masculinity


Please send 150-word proposals in French, English or Spanish, by Sept 30, 2002.
Acceptance will be notified by 15th December, 2002.


Papers in French to Kathleen Gyssels, University of Antwerp:
kathleen.gyssels-AT-uia.ac.be
Papers in Spanish to Rita De Maeseneer, University of Antwerp:
demaese-AT-uia.ua.ac.be
Papers in English to Bénédicte Ledent, Université de Li=E8ge: b.ledent-AT-ulg.ac.be

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