CFP: ACLA panel, "Deviant Realism(s)"

[EMMA LIEBER]

Dear All,

Please see below a CFP for our seminar, "Deviant Realism(s)," at this
year's American Comparative Literature Association conference (NYU, March
20-23).  We are hoping this will be a genuinely comparative seminar with
representatives from several national traditions (including Slavic).
 Abstracts are due on November 15 and can be submitted directly through the
ACLA portal (see information below).  If you have any questions, please
feel free to contact us.

Emma Lieber, Rutgers University (emma.lieber at rutgers.edu)

Nicola Behrmann, Rutgers University (behrmann at rutgers.edu)

Deviant Realism(s)



ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association

Annual Meeting

March 20-23, 2014, New York University



Realism is concerned with the question of property. It is about the
criteria of what properly belongs to a corpus and hence about that which
frames and limits a system, a network, or a discourse. If realism is to be
understood as a narrative which reconciles the “truth of life” with a
“beautiful illusion”, then the question of the essential and the
inessential, the conscious and the unconscious, the work (ergon) and the
embellishment (parergon), the subject and the abject of a text becomes the
touchstone of the economy of realism as such.

This seminar invites discussions of realism (particularly, though not
exclusively, in specific national incarnations) as it relates to questions
of deviance: the relation of what seems to be redundant, excessive,
perverse, or hysterical to the “proper” economy or metabolism of realist
narration. What does the “realist” confrontation between normativity and
abnormality, discipline and deviance entail? How do marginal national
realisms conceive themselves against, imitate, and deviate from more
“hegemonic” national realisms? What is the economy of a deviant realism?
What happens to the reality principle in a deviant realism? What kind of
cultural capital is involved in these negotiations, and how do they
dovetail with or contribute to thematic treatments of deviance within the
texts: sexual deviance, social, and political deviance?

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

   - Sexuality, perversion, or fetish
   - Economic models in realism
   - Metabolisms of realism (consumption, digestion, waste, production)
   - Derrida’s “Economimesis”
   - Discipline
   - Realism’s bodies
   - Queering realism
   - Political radicalism, revolution

For further information see: http://acla.org/acla2014/deviant-realisms/

Please submit your paper proposal (300-500 words) by 11/15/13 at:
http://www.acla.org/submit/. If you are submitting after the deadline
please send an email to ACLA at info at acla.org

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