Call for Papers

Panel 16296: ‘Microzones’: (Un)settling Culture in Caribbean and Latin American Texts

48th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA)

Baltimore, Maryland

March 23-26, 2017

This panel will examine how literary and visual expressions challenge and denounce epistemic violence in the Caribbean and Latin America. The scholar Nelly Richard identifies “microzones of agitation and commotion that unsettle the normative equilibrium of what is dictated by habit or convenience, and thereby creates disturbance in the semiotic organization of messages that produce and reproduce institutional consent”. This panel evokes the dialogue and study of the microzones in Caribbean and Latin American literature and art.

Papers might examine the following disciplines and issues:

• Media and visual studies;
• Gender studies;
• Cultural studies;
• Comparative literature;
• Translation studies: translation theories as a (de)colonial instrument.

Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2016. Please submit abstracts online by following this link to the NeMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16296

For more information, contact Idaliz Roman Perez, graduate student in Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghampon,iromanp1@binghamton.edu.

Sources: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp and https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2016/08/19/microzones-unsettling-culture-in-caribbean-and-latin-american-texts