From: rlorins-AT-mail.utexas.edu
Subject: CFP: "Virtually Third World Literature" (4/1/03;  SCLA, 9/19/03) Austin, TX
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:34:24 -0600 (CST)


Call for Papers: Virtually Third World Literature (4/1/03; Southern Comparative
Literature Association, 19-21 September 2003)

Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA) Annual Conference;
Theme: Going Global – the Futures of Comparative Literature
Time: Sept. 19 – 21 2003
Place: University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Panel: Virtually Third World Literature

Proposals are sought for papers that deal with, in one way or another, the 
impact of internet technologies on the nature, character, definition, 
dissemination, or meanings of third world literatures.  Clearly, internet 
technologies have displaced many third world regions from a network of global 
capital and communication and network-building. Poverty, poor infrastructures 
and national IT policies mean that computers and the power of the internet is 
extended to very few. In other ways, though, the internet has facilitated the 
movement of information globally like never before and empowered and connected 
third world independent journalists and writers to self-publish, sometimes 
under pseudonyms. 

This panel proposes to explore the multitude of ways the internet has 
influenced the futures of third world literatures.  

Areas of exploration include:
=88 How have internet technologies shaped ideologies and mythologies of authors
and authorship in third world regions? 
=88 How have internet technologies changed the reception and dissemination (for
better or worse) of third world literature?
=88 What is the “Internet fallout” of individual works of third world 
literature? (criticism, message boards, listservs, blogs, MOOs, fandom, etc.)
=88 Redefinitions of literature as a category and third world “literatures” on 
the Internet
=88 How have internet technologies changed the face of (third world) classics? 
=88 What happens to oral literatures that are adapted and disseminated over the
Internet?
=88 The internet and regional self-definitions and redefinitions (“what is 
third world on the Internet?”)
=88 Internet and diaspora connections
=88 Internet and nostalgia
=88 Conceptions of display and performance with regards to third world 
literature on the Internet
=88 Race and racialization vis a vis third world literature and criticism on 
the Internet
=88 What urban/web myths have been spawned on the internet regarding third 
world literatures; and/or how are the myths themselves literature?


300 – 500 word abstracts to rlorins-AT-mail.utexas.edu by April 1. (in email or 
attachments accepted)








     --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---