[csaa-forum] Dislocated Readings 21-22 February 2013 call for papers

[baden.offord at scu.edu.au]

http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/dislocated-readings/call-for-papers/

The transnational reception of Australian literature within global literary markets and through cosmopolitan circuits of literature and readerships suggests that national frameworks are being superseded and mediated by an ascendant transnational imaginary. This two day symposium, to be held on 21-22 February 2013, seeks to map the wider coordinates of the transnational currents of Australian literature including the selection and distribution of translated works, readerships, marketing and pedagogy. Contemporary literary scholarship is interested in how the effects of globalization might shape Australian literature in its broadest definition: including travel writing, life-writing, migrant, refugee and Indigenous fiction, as well as writing in languages other than English. This symposium will draw on a wide range of literary and cultural criticism to understand the dynamic and substantive operation of translation (including both inter- and intralingual forms) on our textually mediated relationships with the region and the world.

Panels and papers are invited which could address three streams:

Life-writing

Translation as providing pathways for mobility, return or migration
Genre, gender and region
Space, language and (trans)national literature
Writing/translating the other

Whiteness, ethnicity and cultural nationalism
Comparative settler-colonial literatures
Nation-based comparative literary studies
Transnational

Global market forces and Australian literature
Reception and perceptions of Australian literature overseas
Translation and censorship
Translation after the book
Please submit paper abstracts or proposals for panels to arts-translation-studies-enquiries at monash.edu by 31 October, 2012.

Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and include a 100 word bio. Papers accepted will be allocated 30 minutes in the programme, which includes 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions/discussion.
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