CFP: Materialist Post-Colonial Readings

[Serguei Alex. Oushakine]

From: "Center for African Studies" <jmcgowan at uiuc.edu>
To: <african at uiuc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:57 PM
Subject: CFP: Materialist Post-Colonial Readings


Call for papers for the special session:

MATERIALIST POST-COLONIAL READINGS: History and
Structure in Postcolonial Theory and Literature

at the Central NY Conference on Language and
Literature, Cortland, NY, October 28-30.

Despite the continuing appeal of post-colonial theory
and criticism, many academics have expressed their
concerns about the textual turn in post-colonial
studies. Nonetheless, the pitfalls of post-colonial
theory and criticism can still be corrected once
post-coloniality is developed in dialogue with other
critical interventions and forms of social
mobilization. This panel seeks to examine one path of
development namely, reading texts at the intersection
of post-colonialism and cultural materialism, or
general Marxist approaches to literature. Issues for
consideration may include:

* Continuities and divergencies between
postcolonialism and Marxism.

* the politics of production and reception of the
post-colonial text within the international division
of labor.

* pedagogies of materialist post-colonialism.

* Globalization and the post-colonial: Glocalization
(global/local interdependencies) Vs. world-system
theory.

* Gender/feminism between Marxism and
post-colonialism.

* Transnational feminism and materialist
post-colonialism.

* Intellectuals: Materialist post-colonial
Interpretations.

* Marxists and their post-colonial connections:
Engagements with the specific critiques of
post-colonialism in the works of Marxist critics
(e.g., Frederick Jameson, Timothy Brennan, Arif
Dirlik, etc.)

* Pots-colonialists and their Marxists conections:
Interventions in post-colonial critiques that reflects

Marxist influences,overt or covert (e.g. Spivak, Said,
Sangari, Radhakrishnan, etc.)

Send abstracts by July 15, 2001 to:
Dr. Jamil Khader
Assistant Prof of English
The English Department
Stetson University
421 N. Woodland Blv.
Deland, FL 32720
jkhader at stetson.edu
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