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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    The Roaring of the Twenties: Modernity and the Energetic Turn (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Daniel Brandlechner

    The 1920s are a period of profound social, cultural, and technological transformation across the globe. Known as the Roaring Twenties in the US, Goldene Zwanziger in Germany, años locos in Argentina, Les Années Folles in France, or Anni Ruggenti in...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 17.09.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding of the Global Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is intriguing to examine how the documents from and about the global colonial countries written during the 19th and 20th century describe the extremely unstable social and political environments. With this an emergence of a new world order as well...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  autobiography,  travel literature and 2 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 14.10.2024
    Inter-Asian Literary Relations (ACLA 2025)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What are the textual modes of inter-Asian literary interactions? What are the forms of intertextuality across the literatures and languages of Asia? This seminar aims to examine the inter-Asian network of literary relations that have developed...

    Fields of research Near Eastern literature,  East Asian literature,  South Asian literature and 4 more
    Created on: 13.09.2024
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Writing with the Mind: The Virtual Essence of Global Magical Realism (ACLA 2022 Taipeh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This comparative literature panel will be founded on Eva Aldea’s Deleuzian treatment of magical realism, according to which “the Deleuzian ontological model of actual and virtual as two sides of One Being is invaluable to negotiating the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Poststructuralism,  Narratology and 3 more
    Created on: 11.10.2021
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    I want to die: The contemporary writer and their suicide, ACLA 2022 at National Taiwan Normal University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organizer: Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid) From the turn of the 20th century to the present, debates over the meaning of suicide became a privileged site for efforts to discover the reasons why people commit suicide and how...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and sociology,  Narrative and 4 more
    Created on: 27.08.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2020
    Diálogos transatlánticos: Redes femeninas en los siglos XIX y XX / Transatlantic Dialogues: Women Networks between 19th and 20th centuries (ACLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the transoceanic space, where sovereignty does not belong to any State, margins can speak. In this sense, transatlantic relations between women writers and intellectuals have multiplied since 19th century when they became a space for the...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and sociology,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 19.10.2020