Discursive Practices: The Formation of a Transnational Indigenous Poetics (fwd)

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  Discursive Practices: The Formation of a Transnational Indigenous Poetics
12-14 May 2008 / University of California, Davis  

  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.
        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: 

  * orality and literacy
  * land and literature
  * indigenous languages and literature
  * myths, traditional stories, and history
  * intertextuality and indigenous literary production
  * parallelism and indigenous poetics
  * North/South literary histories
  * memory and imagination
  * gendering voice

  Send a 150-200 word abstract to: Gloria Chacón: gechacon at gmail.com[1] and
Inés Hernández-Ávila: ighernandez at ucdavis.edu[2]. Include author name,
affiliation, contact information and paper title. Deadline for submissions:
DECEMBER 1, 2007. Essays will be selected for a possible anthology. 

  Conference Organizers: Inés Hernández-Avila, UC Davis; Gloria Chacón, UC
Davis; Stefano Varese, UC Davis; Victoria Bomberry, UC Riverside.

Links:
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[1] mailto:gechacon at gmail.com
[2] mailto:ighernandez at ucdavis.edu
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