<p><strong>Discursive Practices: The Formation of a Transnational Indigenous
Poetics<br />
12-14 May 2008 / University of California, Davis </strong></p>
<p>The conference will feature the participation of representative
Native American/indigenous writers from North, Central, and South
America. Sponsored by
the Department of Native American Studies, with co-sponsorship from the
Chicana/Latina Research Center, the Hemispheric Institute on the
Americas, the
Davis Humanities Institute, and the Spanish Department, with systemwide
support from the UC Humanities Research Institute at Irvine.<br />
Papers are invited that consider the importance of indigenous
literatures in the Americas in relationship to cultural (re)vindication
movements within
the last 40 years. The following list suggests some possible areas for
development, but proposals in any area relating to the conference theme
of indigenous
literatures will be welcome:</p>
<ul><li>orality and literacy</li><li>land and literature</li><li>indigenous
languages and literature</li><li>myths, traditional stories, and
history</li><li>intertextuality and indigenous literary
production</li><li>parallelism and indigenous poetics</li><li>North/South
literary histories</li><li>memory and imagination</li><li>gendering
voice</li></ul>
<p>Send a 150-200 word abstract to: Gloria Chacón: <a
href="mailto:gechacon@gmail.com">gechacon@gmail.com</a> and Inés
Hernández-Ávila: <a
href="mailto:ighernandez@ucdavis.edu">ighernandez@ucdavis.edu</a>. Include
author name,
affiliation, contact information and paper title. Deadline for submissions:
<strong>December 1, 2007</strong>. Essays will be selected for a possible
anthology.</p>
<p>Conference Organizers: Inés Hernández-Avila, UC Davis; Gloria
Chacón, UC Davis; Stefano Varese, UC Davis; Victoria Bomberry, UC
Riverside.</p>