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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 28.09.2023
    Language memoirs & linguistic autobiographies: the multilingual subject's self-narrative in comparative literature today (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Presentations may be held in either English, German or French. Please submit your paper proposal before the 30th of September (no exception) directly through the ACLA portal ( ...

    Fields of research Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    The Genre Turn in Multiethnic Literature (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his landmark essay, "The Second Elevation: Race, Form, and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative," Ramón Saldívar proclaimed the arrival of a "cohort of contemporary authors . . . [who] all raise as formal and thematic concerns the very...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literary genre and 3 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    Thinking Modern Epic (ACLA)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Epic poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-Panel 2024: Temporalities of Memory, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Temporalities of Memory Organizer: Michael McGillen (Dartmouth College) A key challenge facing memory studies, despite its central role in interdisciplinary humanities work over the past 30 years, is how the field can survive in the face...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy,  Literary genre and 1 more
    Created on: 15.09.2023
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Orientation in and through Texts (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Reinhard G. Mueller Co-Organizer: Timon Georg Boehm Orientation in and through Texts Organized on behalf of the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation How do we orient ourselves...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Hermeneutics,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2021
    Short Fiction in Comparative and World Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Amândio Reis In Death of a Discipline , Gayatri Spivak addresses the problematic identification between “literature” and the novel form in conventional approaches within comparative literature (2005: 123), voicing a concern with...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 5 more
    Created on: 22.10.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Possibilities in World Literary Criticism(s) (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Despite the opening up of literary studies to the burgeoning and thriving world of literatures from around the world, particularly those in languages outside of the major traditions in European and US American contexts, the project of criticism and...

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  East Asian literature and 11 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021