Seen in UPenn CFP:
Backward Glances: 31st August - 1st September
University College, Cork
contact email: backwardglances@ucc.ie
Call For Papers:
Backward Glances: History, Imagination, and Memory
University College Cork, Ireland.
31st August – 1st September 2011
Society is marked by a fascination with its past, yet this need or desire to look backward and understand, is complicated by the illusive nature of the past. Accessible only through the sites of text, memory and imagination, the past is, in essence, unstable and transitory. Both individual and communal in nature, it is continually exposed to processes of re-interpretation, revision, and re-writing. Anchored in the present, the backward glance is influenced by the concerns and needs of that present, and subject to the dominant ideological perspectives of a fleeting contemporary moment.
Backward Glances, a two-day interdisciplinary conference at University College Cork, seeks to generate dialogue and debate about the nature and function of the retrospective gaze. Exploring the diverse modes by which culture strives to assimilate its history, the conference considers the manner in which constructions of the past are conditioned by the lens of the present. The desire to reflect on and reshape former times is not limited to literature. The organisers invite 20-minute papers from a wide variety of fields. Topics may include but are not confined to:
• National history and national memory
• Spaces of Memory
• Historical fiction
• Individual and collective pasts
• Contested histories
• History and trauma
• History and gender
• Memoirs/Biography
Abstracts of approximately 200-250 words to be submitted to backwardglances@ucc.ie by 12th May 2011.
Please direct any queries to this address or see our website www.ucc.ie/backwardglances for more information.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Conference on Fiction and Trauma
From: UPenn CFP
Collection CFP: Attached to Fiction: Trauma, Loss, Pleasure (4 October, 2010)
full name / name of organization:
Dr Hila Shachar and Dr Sophie Sunderland/English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
contact email:
attachedtofiction@gmail.com
Collection Call for Papers:
Attached to Fiction: Trauma, Loss, Pleasure
Editors: Dr Hila Shachar and Dr Sophie Sunderland, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
Contact email: attachedtofiction@gmail.com
"Mr Sakamoto said that reading had saved his life. Not mathematics. Not money. Not travel. Reading. At a time, he said, when he felt blasted by images, words had anchored him, secured him, stopped his free-falling plunge into nowhere."
-Gail Jones, Dreams of Speaking (London: Harvill Secker, 2006), p. 132.
A survivor of the atomic bomb, Gail Jones’s Mr Sakamoto expresses the inherent relationship between literature, loss and trauma. Words that fail to mediate or reconcile loss can also form fictional worlds that offer a particular kind of fidelity to the troubling, incomprehensible event of loss. Attachments to fiction can therefore be intensely felt and strongly defended as part of traumatic experience. We are seeking 300-500 word abstracts for a book collection of essays and short stories on how fictional narratives intersect with personal narratives of loss and trauma. This collection also aims to explore the complex forms of pleasure brought about by the attachment to, or creation of, fiction during traumatic events, loss, or grief. Essays and fiction with an Australian focus are particularly welcome. Specific examples of topics might include, but are not limited to:
Family histories of loss and trauma told in fictional form
Identification with a specific novel or character at a particularly traumatic stage in life
The use of reading and writing as a therapeutic and cathartic experience
The “pleasure” of fiction during periods of loss and trauma
Writing through grief
Reflections upon why certain novels or narratives are particularly important during certain traumatic events
Fictional short stories that engage with the themes of literary production, trauma and loss
Personal narratives of coping with trauma and loss through the process of reading and writing
Theoretical perspectives on literary representations of trauma and loss
Attachment as a psychological and psychoanalytic model with which to consider personal relationships to fictional characters and narratives
Untold and forgotten stories of local Australian and Western Australian traumatic histories
Parallels between literary fiction and life experiences
The traumatic experience of writing itself
In the spirit of the collection, we welcome both fictional and non-fictional short stories and personal essays that engage with the primary themes of the collection. Essays and short stories can be approached from any tone, from the humorous and irreverent, to the serious and contemplative. While scholarly approaches are also welcome, these essays and short stories should be in the style of creative fiction and non-fiction.
Currently, Australian author Gail Jones (University of Western Sydney) is attached to this project as a possible contributor. We welcome abstracts from scholars, creative writers, emerging and established authors, and others. Please send abstracts and a short bio by 4th of October, 2010, to Hila Shachar and Sophie Sunderland at attachedtofiction@gmail.com. Complete essays and short stories of approximately 3000-5000 words will be due on 31st of January, 2011. Inquiries are welcome.
* By web submission at 06/03/2010 - 10:03
Collection CFP: Attached to Fiction: Trauma, Loss, Pleasure (4 October, 2010)
full name / name of organization:
Dr Hila Shachar and Dr Sophie Sunderland/English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
contact email:
attachedtofiction@gmail.com
Collection Call for Papers:
Attached to Fiction: Trauma, Loss, Pleasure
Editors: Dr Hila Shachar and Dr Sophie Sunderland, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
Contact email: attachedtofiction@gmail.com
"Mr Sakamoto said that reading had saved his life. Not mathematics. Not money. Not travel. Reading. At a time, he said, when he felt blasted by images, words had anchored him, secured him, stopped his free-falling plunge into nowhere."
-Gail Jones, Dreams of Speaking (London: Harvill Secker, 2006), p. 132.
A survivor of the atomic bomb, Gail Jones’s Mr Sakamoto expresses the inherent relationship between literature, loss and trauma. Words that fail to mediate or reconcile loss can also form fictional worlds that offer a particular kind of fidelity to the troubling, incomprehensible event of loss. Attachments to fiction can therefore be intensely felt and strongly defended as part of traumatic experience. We are seeking 300-500 word abstracts for a book collection of essays and short stories on how fictional narratives intersect with personal narratives of loss and trauma. This collection also aims to explore the complex forms of pleasure brought about by the attachment to, or creation of, fiction during traumatic events, loss, or grief. Essays and fiction with an Australian focus are particularly welcome. Specific examples of topics might include, but are not limited to:
Family histories of loss and trauma told in fictional form
Identification with a specific novel or character at a particularly traumatic stage in life
The use of reading and writing as a therapeutic and cathartic experience
The “pleasure” of fiction during periods of loss and trauma
Writing through grief
Reflections upon why certain novels or narratives are particularly important during certain traumatic events
Fictional short stories that engage with the themes of literary production, trauma and loss
Personal narratives of coping with trauma and loss through the process of reading and writing
Theoretical perspectives on literary representations of trauma and loss
Attachment as a psychological and psychoanalytic model with which to consider personal relationships to fictional characters and narratives
Untold and forgotten stories of local Australian and Western Australian traumatic histories
Parallels between literary fiction and life experiences
The traumatic experience of writing itself
In the spirit of the collection, we welcome both fictional and non-fictional short stories and personal essays that engage with the primary themes of the collection. Essays and short stories can be approached from any tone, from the humorous and irreverent, to the serious and contemplative. While scholarly approaches are also welcome, these essays and short stories should be in the style of creative fiction and non-fiction.
Currently, Australian author Gail Jones (University of Western Sydney) is attached to this project as a possible contributor. We welcome abstracts from scholars, creative writers, emerging and established authors, and others. Please send abstracts and a short bio by 4th of October, 2010, to Hila Shachar and Sophie Sunderland at attachedtofiction@gmail.com. Complete essays and short stories of approximately 3000-5000 words will be due on 31st of January, 2011. Inquiries are welcome.
* By web submission at 06/03/2010 - 10:03
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