Preliminary Call for Papers
30th Annual French Literature Conference
Imagined Geographies in French and Francophone Literature and Film
March 21-23, 2002
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)
The French Literature Conference at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, invites papers on literary and cinematographic constructions of geography. In an era of increasing globalization, the conference seeks to (re)examine representations of place as textual constructs rather than as unproblematic transcriptions of external reality .
Possible approaches to the topic might include:
considerations of migration and nomadism
deterritorialization
dystopias
geographic misrepresentations
geographies of empire
geographies of nation
globalism
heterotopias
imaginary voyages
inscriptions of "home" and exile
landscapes and territories
literary/cinematographic cartographies
maps
postcolonial spaces
spatial appropriation
spatial symbolics of the quest
the geographic "other"
utopias
Papers should relate the conference topic to French-language literature and/or film of any period or provenance. Two anonymous copies of complete papers, in English or in French, must be submitted by November 1, 2001. Submissions should be prepared according to the MLA Handbook and should be held to a twenty-minute presentation time (about 10 typed double-spaced pages). Participants are encouraged to expand their presentations for publication to no more than 18 typed double-spaced pages. Proceedings will be published as volume XXIX of FLS (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi). For more information, please contact:
Jeanne Garane
Dept. of French and Classics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Office phone: (803) 777-2878 or (803) 777-4881
Fax: (803): 777-0454 Email: garanej@sc.edu
URL: http://www.cla.sc.edu/fren/events/flc/index.html