The 6th Wenshan Conference on English and American Literature
English Department, National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei.
March 2006
Call for papers
Conference Theme: "Situated Knowledges: Literature of Belief,
Believing, &the Unbelievable"
"Situated Knowledges: Literature of Belief, Believing, &the
Unbelievable"
This conference revisits and expands Donna Haraway's theme
of "situated knowledges" and the idea of "local knowledge"
discussed by Clifford Geerz and so many others recently in terms of
a global/local dynamic. To situate knowing and believing is to re-
cognize the "site" of knowledges whether in terms of social spaces,
ecological places, the embodiment in perfomative bodies, the
material relations of production of values, and many other such
situations and locations of cultural representation. The conference
seeks to interpret literary knowledge in terms of the location of
the reader both spatially and temporally, the site(s) of the text,
and how authors situate themselves. It also looks at how such
knowledges differ from site to site, whether in terms of
nationality or ethnicity or gender or class.
We are calling for papers that address any period, genre, or source
of literature broadly conceived. Suggested subtopics include:
- Situating through the "chronotopes" of literary protagonists,
genres, and readers themselves.
- Local knowledge revisited: limiting, disembedding,
deterritorializing, or defending beliefs?
- Unbelievable sites in literature. The fantastic as escape from
and/or recreation of locations.
- On location: the setting vis-a-vis being "on location" of
narrative filmmaking. Settings in literature and their knowledges.
- The country versus the city as sites of conflicting knowledges.
Urban literature and nature writing.
- The body as situated knowledges: differential beliefs in the
performative body, the gendered body, the aged body
- Ecosystems as situated knowledge in literary works.
- Revisiting the site of class consciousness: how to remap class-
based knowledges in the global division of (immaterial) labor.
- Cultural locations and multicultural sites in the production of
literary knowledge.
- Ways of believing and disbelieving in interpretive practices. How
do texts allow believability and beliefs?
- Beliefs sacred and profane. Devotional literature, meditative
writing, the site of epiphanies and doubts.
Please email abstracts (up to 300 words) before October 5 to
wsconf@nccu.edu.tw . Notification of acceptance: December 23, 2005.
Deadline for full paper: February 15, 2006. Possible publication in
peer-reviewed journals.
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