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Subject: CFP:  North-South Solidarity and Its Discontents
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Call for Papers:
American Comparative Literature Association Conference
(www.csusm.edu/acla2003)
April 4-6 at California State San Marcos, near San Diego.
We are seeking interdisciplinarity in this seminar.


Venceremos Juntos?: North-South Solidarity and Its Discontents

This seminar will explore relationships between cultural work and
political solidarity movements along an international North-South axis.
'Vietnam' poetry, the Havana International Writers' Congress, Kommune 1,

travel writing on post-revolutionary Nicaragua, world music, Bono's
recent 'poverty tour' are all possible examples.
What are the implications of such historical and contemporary crossings
between aesthetics and politics, or the transnational appropriations of
political struggles? Must North-South, center-periphery solidarity work
be dismissed as neo-colonial impulses or opportunism? Is it best
described as revolutionary tourism? Is the South always constructed as a

passive beneficiary and if not, how convincing are other models? When
and how can solidarity work offer productive, alternative modes of
identification and possibilities for intervention for both North and
South? What and where are the in-betweens?

Proposals for theoretical approaches or case studies related to this
topic are welcome from diverse disciplines. Please send an email
abstract of up to 500 words with all contact information (no
attachments, please) by September 25th to both:

Marike Janzen, University of Texas, Austin     marikej-AT-mail.utexas.edu
and
Jennifer Hosek, University of California, Berkeley
jhosek-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu