From: "Elizabeth DeLoughrey" <emd23-AT-cornell.edu>
Subject: FW: CFP: ACLA Session: Rethinking Pacific Imperialisms
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:09:56 -0400


Imperialisms--Temporal, Spatial, Formal: ACLA 2005 Conference

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, March 11-13, 2005 

ACLA Annual Conference Website: <http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/ACLA/.=20>
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/ACLA/.

Session Title: Rethinking Pacific Imperialisms

Although the field of postcolonial studies has dramatically changed the
methodological and spatial frameworks of literary study, it has also
tended to privilege some geographies over others. Thus the literary and
cultural production of the largest region on the planet, the Pacific,
has not played a dominant role in the academic exploration of the empire
and its others, even while this region continues to be vital to the
constitution of Euro-American imperialisms. This panel will explore the
space-time nexus of empire in multiple Pacific Island contexts, moving
beyond the well-worn tropes of the "noble savage" to explore indigenous,
local, and diasporan literary and cultural production in the island
region. Representations of the Pacific are certainly important to the
process of empire building and might include a variety of forms from
popular South Seas novels to tourism, but we hope this panel will
destabilize the dominant frame of colonial discourse to highlight the
ways in which Pacific Islanders have charted alternative cultural
cartographies. We encourage papers that engage the complex intersections
of Pacific literary and cultural studies with other comparative
frameworks such as indigenous, postcolonial, diasporan, feminist,
globalization, and island studies.   

Submit a 300-word abstract through the conference website at:

http://app.outreach.psu.edu/acla/cfp/add_paperproposal.asp
<http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/acla/default.asp?WhichPage=paper> 

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2004

****************

Elizabeth DeLoughrey 

Assistant Professor

Dept of English, Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14850

607-255-3411 (Fax: 6661)

Caribbean and Pacific Island Website:

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/emd23/home.html

 


--- StripMime Warning --  MIME attachments removed --- 
This message may have contained attachments which were removed.

Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list.

--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- 
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
---


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