CFP: Nature(s) of the Text (seminar)
American Comparative Literature Association
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts March 17-20, 2016.
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Organizer: Loic Bourdeau, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Co-Organizer: Alexandrine Mailhe, University of California at Davis
Abstracts should be submitted online between September 1st and 23rd
Please contact Dr Loic Bourdeau for more information.
This seminar proposes to investigate nature (environment and architectural constructs) in relation to the form of the text. The focus lies in the variety of Francophone cultures/productions to see how texts are constructed and how the writer's use of natural elements might echo the textual form as well as its impact on the content. Interested scholars are encouraged to reflect on the following topics (although the list is not exhaustive):
- intertextuality (the nature of the intertext, nature and the intertext...)
- environment, architecture, and the making of a text
- natural forms and consequences on content
- traumatized texts and voices
- ecocriticism and Francophone studies
- landscapes, flowers, sights, and forms of the texts
- narrative forms of resistance and natural elements of resistance/oppression
Scholars are encouraged to submit works that engage with all centuries, locales, as well as those engaging with feminist, queer, and postcolonial studies.
Send abstracts of 250 words along with a 50-word biography.