REMINDER: CFP: "Body Traffic across the Global Village" NeMLA, 7-11 April 2010 (Montreal)

[Alexandar Mihailovic]

I encourage anybody interested in literary, journalistic or cinematic
treatments of  demographic shifts in the labor market of the former East
Bloc to send me a proposal for a paper on the following panel, which will
take place at the next convention 
of the Northeast Modern Language
Association (4/7-11/10;  Montreal, CA).  Take note that the deadline for
submission of abstracts is September 30:


The World is Not Flat: Body Traffic across the Global Village

We will examine the ways in which literary, cinematic, journalistic and
internet texts portray the lives of deracinated workers within the global
marketplace. How do these texts serve as correctives to Thomas Friedman's
celebration of increasingly symbiotic economic relations across the globe?
Do such texts also manifest a transmigrational imagination, engendered by a
thoroughly globalized media? Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be
sent to Alexandar Mihailovic (cllazm at hofstra.edu), and may consider any of
these questions in regard to identities that are redefined through the
migration of labor(ers).

Please include with your abstract:
	Name and Affiliation
	Email address
	Postal address
	Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee, to be paid through
http://www.nemla.org)

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