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Exil: mode(s) d'emploi  Experiencing Exile in Literature and the Arts

Exil: mode(s) d'emploi Experiencing Exile in Literature and the Arts

Publié le par Julien Desrochers (Source : Franco-Monde Digest)

CALL FOR PAPERS

For the 10th Annual UCLA French & Francophone Studies Graduate Student Conference

"Exil: mode(s) d'emploi -- Experiencing Exile in Literature and the Arts"

The graduate students of the French and Francophone studies department are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference with keynote speakers Emmanuel Dongala and Christopher L. Miller

October 13-14, 2005
University of California, Los Angeles

As political turmoil, economic imbalances and other forms of oppression encourage the movement of peoples to new spaces, geographical or psychic, cultural practitioners are faced with the challenge of forging new idioms by which to understand their world. The rise of exile as an experience has stimulated important dialogue on its function in artistic production as well as its place in discourses across disciplines. Choosing exile as our theme, we are particularly interested in exploring the various ways in which writers and artists "translate" exile, and how in turn exile complicates or complements creative endeavors. How does one simultaneously live and imagine exile? What are the tensions inherent in the exilic experience and how do they color the creative
process?

Our distinguished keynote speakers are Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala and literary scholar Christopher L. Miller. Emmanuel Dongala has been living in exile in the United States for seven years. His novels, such as his most recent Johnny chien méchant, treat far-reaching themes, from the re-telling of history to globalization and political corruption. Christopher L. Miller is Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University. His most recent publication, entitled Nationalists and Nomads, is one example of his important contributions to the fields of postcolonial and Francophone studies.

We welcome 250-word abstracts in French or English for papers related to the topic of exile in literature and the arts. Conference presentations should be twenty minutes in length and may address the topic from any period or discipline: literature, sociology, history, cultural studies, gender studies, film, theater, the performing arts, etc.

Please submit abstracts by email attachment to Conference Chairs Julie Nack Ngue and Amy Marczewski at frenconf@ucla.edu by March 30th, 2005.  We will only be accepting abstracts from graduate students.

Possible paper topics may include but are not limited to:

*The real and imagined worlds of exile: creating new worlds and confronting the old in a new land; absent landscapes of home; utopic
visions

*Temporality or atemporality of/in exile: nostalgia, forging a future, the unbearable present; the atemporality of home; home as alien

*Mourning/melancholia/trauma and/in exile: articulating "the crippling sorrow of estrangement"

*Exilic histories: remembering and forgetting

*The journey and the myth of return

*Ideas of home in exile: (re)creating home

*Performing exile: exile as praxis of creativity

*Psychic exile: when you’re not "at home" at home

*(In)volontary exile: self-imposed or forced departure; slavery; incarceration

*Hospitality and hostility in exile

*Linguistic exile: foreign tongues; illogical expression

*Camaraderie/solidarity in exile vs. isolation in exile: the individual and the collective; inserting oneself into a new collectivity while
trying to maintain allegiance with the old.


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