Call for Papers:
Comparative Literature
and Globalisation Today
Birmingham UK
24 October 2015
BY AFRICA IN WORDS
From the Northern Comparative Literature Network
Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today
Inaugural Seminar of The Northern Comparative Literature Network
Saturday 24 October 2015, Birmingham City University
Globalization, and the various nationalist, religious and cultural
resistances to it, might be said to be the paradigm of the present.
This has had, and continues to have, wide-ranging ramifications
for Comparative Literature. Is the discipline to be subsumed
under the broader economic, political and cultural spread of
Globalization? Or can it offer points of resistance and critique –
alternative ways of understanding the spread of culture and
language in the twenty-first century? Comparative Literature
could be said to offer an historicizing view of cultural exchanges,
movements and clashes which are not primarily economic; but
it may also be understood to have contributed to, or be complicit
in, the spread of economically-motivated globalization. Perhaps
we might think in terms of ‘globalizations’ and ‘comparative
literatures’, and view their multiple and multiplying processes,
intentions and effects, as still very much in progress and to be
accounted for. These issues have been raised in recent
scholarship, for instance in Haun Saussy’s edited collection
Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (2006), and
this seminar seeks to further develop and widen the scope of the
debate. Contributions are welcome on any aspect of literature
and related disciplines, including drama, visual arts and
cinema. Topics for papers might include but are not limited to:
Globalization
‘European Literature’
Migration and border crossing
World Literature or Comparative Literature
Colonial/Postcolonial Literature
Literature and the Other
Translating texts, translating cultures
Post-national and transnational literature
Responses to recent critical work in the field, such as Saussy’s collection noted above
The reception of a particular work, author or movement in other language(s) or culture(s)
We welcome abstracts and expressions of interest in the group from established scholars, postgraduates and researchers. Abstracts of 250 words for papers lasting around 20 minutes should be forwarded to Peter Jackson peter.jackson@bcu.ac.uk or Tom Knowles thomas.knowles@bcu.ac.uk by Thursday 24 September 2015.
About The Northern Comparative Literature Network
The NCLN is a group of scholars from the Midlands and the North of the UK who have come together in order to foster research, teaching and collaboration in Comparative Literature, and to promote its importance in the curricula of higher education. The seminar is a space for those active in the field to share their work and ideas, but also a chance for those engaged in other disciplines to think about their own field in international, inter-linguistic and inter-cultural terms.
Please do to get in touch if you are interested in joining NCLN or wish to attend a seminar.
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