[AIW] CFP: Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt/Austria, September 17-19, 2020

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Call for Papers

International Conference

Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures

University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt/Austria

September 17-19, 2020

https://narrativeencounters.aau.at/cfp-for-international-conference-narrativ
e-encounters-with-ethnic-american-literatures/

 

 

Conveners: Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikic, and Mario Grill

 

Taking a cue from pioneering efforts at the intersection of context-oriented
approaches in race and ethnicity studies and post-classical narratology,
this conference is interested in the relationship between narrative, race,
and ethnicity in the United States.

 

Reading so-called “ethnic” American literatures means encountering
characters and storyworlds imagined by writers associated with minority
communities in the United States. Without doubt, the formal study of
narrative can help us gain a deeper understanding of such encounters, but
until recently, narratologists rarely grappled with the question of how
issues of race and ethnicity force us to rethink the formal study of
narrative.

 

Attesting that the relative “race/ethnicity-blindness” of narrative theory
is a severe limitation, scholars such as James Donahue have called for a
“critical race narratology” (2017, 3) that addresses this lacuna. A range of
recent book publications (e.g. Aldama 2005; Donahue 2019; Donahue, Ho, and
Morgan 2017; Fetta 2018; Gonzáles 2017; Kim 2013; Moya 2016; Wyatt and
George 2020) demonstrate that a variety of insights can be gained from
narratological approaches that open themselves up to issues of race and
ethnicity in conjunction with other important identity markers including
class, religion, gender, and sexuality. And, as Sue Kim has noted, there are
shared interests in understanding the ways in which such narratives “operate
within larger social structures as well as an investment in the scrutiny of
how minds and subjectivity work in and through narratives” (2017, 16).

 

How do ethnic American literary texts use narrative form to engage readers
in issues related to race and ethnicity? What narrative strategies do they
employ to interweave these issues with other important identity markers such
as class, religion, gender, and sexuality? How do they involve readers
emotionally in their storyworlds and how do they relate such involvements to
the racial politics and history of the United States? And how does paying
attention to the strategies and formal features of ethnic American
literatures change our understanding of narrative theory? These are some of
the questions we hope to address at this conference.

 

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Frederick Luis Aldama, Distinguished University Professor, Ohio State
University

Patrick Colm Hogan, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of
Connecticut

Paula Moya, Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities,
Stanford University

 

We invite paper proposals on topics including, but not limited to the
following:

•           Theoretical intersections of race/ethnicity and narrative theory

•           Narrative worldmaking and ethnic American storyworlds in fiction
and nonfiction

•           Narrative strategies of representing racial and ethnic histories

•           Intersectional narratologies

•           Narrative identification and disidentification

•           Performativity and ethnic identity

•           Cognitive approaches to ethnic American literatures

•           Narrative engagement, simulation, embodiment, and emotion

•           Affective reader response and the empathic imagination

•           Unnatural narratives and non-normative narrators

•           Narrative ethics, race, and the environmental imagination

•           Empirical reception studies related to ethnic American
literatures

 

The conference is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in the
context of the Narrative Encounters Project at the University of Klagenfurt
(https://narrativeencounters.aau.at).

 

There are plans to publish an edited collection related to the conference
theme; selected papers will be considered for inclusion.

 

Abstracts (300-400 words) for 20-minute papers (in English) and a short bio
note should be submitted by email no later than January 31, 2020 to:
narrative.encounters at aau.at <mailto:narrative.encounters at aau.at> 

 

For questions and queries, please contact narrative.encounters at aau.at
<mailto:narrative.encounters at aau.at> .

 

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