CFP: A New Sense
of Place: Travel and Alterity in Southern Literature
In her 2011
Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region,
and Literature, scholar Thadious Davis revivifies the idea of place in
southern literature. It is such
reconsiderations of southern places as dynamic spaces that this panel will
explore. The 2013 Mardi Gras
Conference theme is “In Momentum: Literature, Travel, and Alterity.” (See http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/47987
for the conference-wide CFP.) This timely theme asks for a discussion of
notions of place and space, for considerations of how travel and movement,
boundedness and freedom, can be considered in terms of literature, art,
science, thought. Under that larger umbrella of movement and travel, this panel will explore the broad themes of
travel, the related discourses of globalization, migration, space, and place,
and connected issues regarding alterity
in the literature of the American South.
Suggested topics include (but are certainly not limited to) the
traumatic histories of travel in the South, including African slavery and
Native American removal; migrant work; southern expatriate writing; the
post-Katrina New Orleans diaspora; the Appalachian diaspora; and the effect of
tourism on southern identity. Submit
abstract for a 15-20 minute paper to mmil132@lsu.edu by Saturday, December 1,
2012.
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