Interesting approach to modernism, colonialism, and postmodernism. Just
to show how these categories keep evolving... Peter
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Subject: CFP: The Politics of Global Modernism- NeMLA '08
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:57:12 +0800
From: Jeremy Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: H-Net List on South & Southern Africa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: 15 August 2007
From: Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Call For Papers: "The Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial
Modernity".
The Northeast Modern Language Association has announced its call for
proposals and papers for its 2008 convention, April 10-13, at the Hyatt
Regency, Buffalo, NY, USA. I invite proposals for a panel entitled "The
Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial Modernity".
General Conference Call and Submission Information:
The NeMLA Board of Directors is pleased to offer this wide range and high
quality of proposed sessions for our 2008 Convention. The excellent
speakers and wonderful local events being planned are sure to make this a
conference to remember. Our last convention in Buffalo was one of our most
congenial. Please include the following information with your abstract:
name, affiliation, email address, postal address, telephone number, and
any A/V requirements ($10 media handling fee). Panelists should renew/join
and register no later than Nov. 30, 2007 for the 2008 membership year or
risk being dropped from the convention program. You need not be a NeMLA
member to submit a paper for consideration.
Panel on Global Modernism:
This panel proposes to examine the modernist cultural production of
marginal territories falling outside the Paris-London-New York nexus. We
will investigate alternative forms of engagement with modernist aesthetics
on the part of marginalized artists, in particular in a colonial context
dominated by orientalist dynamics and exclusive concepts of Eurocentric
modernity.
Papers may address one or more of the following questions: How did
marginalized cultural production from the colonies undermine the
imperialist patterns of appropriation of "primitive" art and culture by
mainstream modernism? In what forms did vernacular modernisms, which
distanced themselves from the mere imitation of Euro-American models,
emerge? How did these alternative understandings of modernity engage with
issues of cultural difference on the global level? How do their
contributions help (re)conceptualize the relations, contradictions, and
genealogies of modernism and the modern? To what extent does their
critical focus on the vernacular provide a revision of modernism that
would successfully reflect the ever-shifting global dynamics of the
concept? These are of course just a few thoughts and do in no way exhaust
possible approaches and arguments.
Please send 250-word abstracts and short CVs by September 30, 2007 to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Interested participants may submit abstracts to more
than one panel; however, panelists can only present one paper, though they
may participate in a panel and a roundtable or other alternative session.
The general conference CFP is available at
http://www.nemla.org/convention/index.html.
The 2008 convention in Buffalo has more proposed panels than any NeMLA
convention in the past 7 years - it has the potential to be a dynamic and
exciting exchange. I sincerely hope that many of you will contribute to
making this convention a successful event.
Best,
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Department of Literature
UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92037
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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