Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:16:34 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Displacing Desire in a Global Context 


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From: Allen Miller <millerpa-AT-gwm.sc.edu>

The American Comparative Literature Association will host a meeting April 15
- 18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.   Please read the following Call for Papers below
or online at http://www.umich.edu/~acla/index.html.   Please note that the
deadline for abstracts is 10-8-03.


Displacing desire globally

Journeys of desire exist throughout literature - Gilgamesh went on a vain
search for Immortality; Odysseus sought his own homecoming; Basho recounted
moments on the narrow road to the deep north. While these three examples differ in
their conceptions of time and immediacy, they portray what Freud termed the
death drive, a repetitious cycling of acts in a search for the final return.
It is true that Eastern modes of thinking, such as Buddhism and Hinduism,
affirm this cycle as the means of enlightenment. But the journey of desire's
metonymic displacement continues nonetheless to the point of extinction.

This panel is looking for explanations of 'desire' as it pertains to the self
in literary texts, the self in space, time, and geography, or the self in
theory. This panel is particularly interested in abstracts (with either an
Eastern or Western focus) that pertain to notions of desire as displacement whether
physical, spiritual, emotional, sexual, literary, psychological, or
philosophical.

Please send 250 word abstracts by 10-8-03 to kkrumnow-AT-aol.com or by mail to:

Kristi Krumnow
University of South Carolina
Welsh Humanities Building 405
Program in Comparative Literature
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208





Paul Allen Miller
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Graduate Director, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(ph.) 803-777-0951
(fax) 803-777-7514