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Écriture Feminine and Geography

Écriture Feminine and Geography

Publié le par Thomas Parisot (Source : CFP)

The 7th Annual GES Conference will be held February 22-23, 2002 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The theme of this year's conference, "Past and Future Perspectives: Negotiating our Changing Field," addresses our changing field from the graduate scholar's perspective. The palindrome of the year suggests examination of ways our past can help us deal with our future regarding issues arising from new theories, cultural shifts, evolving technologies, and recent discoveries.

While I am especially interested in abstracts/proposals which address the following suggested topics, abstracts dealing with any aspect of Women's Writing are welcome and will be considered:
1) Women's writing spaces and places -- what is a female writing space and how is it represented in literature? In what places do women write? Do women's writing places evolve over history? What are the relationships between women's writing places and genre? How do women use 'spaces' to express themselves?
2) Women's writing in exile -- how does a shift in geographical location create an opportunity for women to claim a voice and/or sexual desires of their own? In what ways do women represent cross-cultural experiences in literature? What narrative strategies do women use to resist or react to acculturation in their writing?
3) The interplay of feminist thoughts and theories across global, social class, and sexual geographies - how are geography and feminism related? How will twenty-first century feminism empower women from all social classes around the world and from different sexual orientations? How is the concept of global feminism represented in literature?

E-mail submissions are strongly encouraged; please put "GES Conference Proposal" in the subject line for all electronic submissions. Participants may present no more than two papers or be on no more than two panels.

Abstracts/Proposals (250 words) and inquiries should be addressed to:
Amy Lynn
6604A Elmwood
Lubbock, TX 79424
(806) 794-4238
e-mail: alynn@cleanweb.net

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please visit the GES Conference web site at:
http://english.ttu.edu/GESConference

  • Adresse :
    Lubbock, Texas