MELUS 18th Annual Conference, 10-14 March 2004
Abstracts should be postmarked 1 December 2003
- Conference Site: San Antonio, TX
- Access the official conference web site: http://colfa.utsa.edu/ecpc/meluconf.htm Host: The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Conference Co-Chairs: Bill Mullen, Norma Cantu & Sonia Saldivar-Hull
- Conference Committee: Sue Hum, Juanita Luna Lawhn, Luis Mendoza, Mona Narain, Ben Olguin, Moumin Quazi, & Michael Soto
- Transfronterismo: Crossing Ethnic Borders in U.S. Literatures
We invite paper abstracts and complete panel, workshop, and roundtable proposals on all aspects of multiethnic literatures of the United States. We especially encourage those that engage in the conference theme. Transfronterismo highlights the theoretical, ideological, pragmatic practices and possibilities of hybridity, mestizaje, and diaspora in the formation of subjectivities, geopolitical coalitions, and literary cartographies. Transfronterismo serves as an alternative space that gives birth to distinct imaginaries, one with alternative mappings for the local, the global, and their shared/overlapping boundaries. What is it that we do when we affirm, deny, or transgress the border? We offer the following list as suggestions:
- internal diasporas and subject positions
- transnational and comparative approaches
- borders of genre and frontiers of lived experience
- reverse migration and cross cultural transnationalism
- class boundaries and capitalist borders
- patriotism and post-nationalist politics
- interstices and aporias of ethnic identity
- inter-racial and inter-ethnic encounters
- hegemonic and geopolitics negotiations
- gender and sexual crossings
- literacy education and pedagogy
All proposal abstracts (250 words maximum) should be submitted in triplicate. We strongly encourage proposals of complete panels, roundtables, and workshops that should include a brief description and abstracts for individual speakers. Abstracts should be postmarked 1 December 2003, addressed to Professor Bill Mullen, Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 6900 North Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, TX 78249-0643. Email inquiries Bill Mullen, bmullen@utsa.edu. [Fax and email for international submissions only: (210) 458 5366]
All presenters must be members of MELUS. For information about membership and renewal visit the MELUS website at: http://www.marshall.edu/melus/
Radisson Hotel, 502 W Durango Blvd, San Antonio, TX (phone 210-224-7155) Rooms: $99 + 16.75% tax, up to 4 persons per room. Suites: $150 to $200 + 16.75% tax (please inquire with the hotel). [Note: You must mention MELUS]