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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    "Transnational Literature and Transnational Aesthetics: Developments and Negotiations" (ACLA 2024)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In his 2021 book Transnational Literature: The Basics, Paul Jay describes transnational literature as “a particular type of literature, emergent at an identifiable historical moment and dealing, collectively, with a set of issues and themes...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 25.09.2023
  2. 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
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2023
    ACLA-panel 2024: Queer trauma in world literature, Montreal
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dear colleagues, For anyone working on literary trauma studies or queer trauma in literature (any language / period), I would like to draw your attention to this seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association's (ACLA’s) 2024...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 4 more
    Created on: 11.09.2023
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Magister Mundi? Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is a ‘universal’ element to be found in Hermann Hesse’s works. Hesse is ‘global’ as a writer in the sense that his texts reach and affect individual readers transculturally in a way that they perceive to be of personal relevance. However, this...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    Debating World Literature through National Literature (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This seminar seeks papers that reflect on how national authors attempt to introduce and present their countries through the lens of the literature to the world readers, on the one hand, and how the concept of world literature functions at the...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  World Literature,  Literature and sociology and 1 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 09.12.2021
    New Workers’ Literature: Re-Imagining Global Subaltern Narratives (ACLA 2022, Taipeh - extended deadline)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In the ongoing global geopolitical, economic, environmental and pandemic crises, the world is never this divided and stratified. Among a multitude of verbal, visual and aural narratives in response to such social inequality, New Workers’ Literature...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 08.11.2021
  7. 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
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Je est un author: (Re-)Appearances of the Authorial Subject in Literature and Theory (ACLA 2022, Taipei)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Mithu Sanyal’s novel Identitti, shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021, a fictional professor of Postcolonial Studies who identifies as a PoC causes a scandal when it turns out she is actually white. A recent American case eerily resembles the...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 15.10.2021
  9. 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
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.10.2021
    Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University, ACLA 2022, Taipei
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    *Unjust Philologies in the "Modern" University* American Comparative Literature Association Seminar (June 15-18 2022; Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2021 ) In this seminar, we wish to examine how people of different positionalities ...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Hermeneutics,  Poststructuralism and 4 more
    Created on: 20.09.2021