Date: Tue,  8 Apr 2003 22:57:53 -0400
From: hrsnell-AT-uwo.ca
To: cfp-AT-english.upenn.edu
Subject: CFP: Rethinking the Postcolonial City (7/15/03; CNYCLL, 10/26/03-10/28/03)


Abstracts invited for the following panel at the 13th Annual Central New York 
Conference on Language and Literature at the State University of New York in 
Cortland, October 26-28, 2003.

Rethinking the Postcolonial City

This panel invites a rethinking of the postcolonial city and/or inner cities in 
the context of increasing globalization and East-West conflict. How are cities 
like Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Lahore, Nairobi, Mombasa, Accra, Lagos, Ibadan, 
Kingston, Port of Spain, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Wellington altered by 
flows of international capital, terrorism, migration and/or tourism? How do 
they resist the universalizing impulse of European and North-American 
capitalism? How are they represented by global media and postcolonial 
literature, theory and/or criticism?  In view of the potential tyranny of 
spatial metaphor, how might scholars theorize postcolonial, urban space? What 
is unique to this space and how might postcolonial literature affect/effect it? 
What is the relationship between the postcolonial city, the rural space 
surrounding it and/or the metropoles? How does the postcolonial city continue 
to be shaped by imperialist legacy and indigenous traditions? What is at stake 
in the textualization of cityscapes? Has postcolonial, urban space become the 
privileged site of resistance at the expense of the rural? 

Aspects of this theme may include (but are not limited to) the following: 

Diaspora, Home, Dwelling, Community
Homelessness, Poverty
Place/Space, Identity
Cosmopolitanism, (Post)Modernity, Utopianism/Dystopianism/Science Fiction
Nationalism, Heritage, Citizenship
Development, Mobility

Send 500 word abstracts by July 15, 2003 to: hrsnell-AT-uwo.ca

By snail mail:

Heather Snell
Department of English, University of Western Ontario
London, ON
N6A 3K7




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