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Sym: 0210.13
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:11:32 +1300
From: Wim Husken <w.husken@auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Sym: 0210.13: Aankondiging internationale conferentie 'The
poetics of exile', van do 17 tot za 19 juli
2003 in Auckland (Nieuw Zeeland)
The Poetics of Exile: an International Conference
First Call for Papers
- The Poetics of Exile: an International Conference
University of Auckland
New Zealand
17th-19th July 2003
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/SELL/complit/conf.pdf
- "Exile is strangely compelling to think about
but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift
forced between a human being and a native place, between
the self and its true home: its essential sadness can
never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature
and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even
triumphant episodes in an exile's life, these are no more
than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of
estrangement. The achievements of exile are permanently
undermined by the loss of something left behind forever." - Edward Said
An international conference, The Poetics of Exile, to be held at the
University of Auckland, 17th-19th July 2003, will bring together poets,
critics, and scholars in fields as diverse as classical literature,
indigenous and postcolonial writing, trauma studies, and the
contemporary avantgarde, to present and discuss creative responses to
the condition of exile.
From ancient Rome and China to Europe during the Enlightenment to
contemporary Africa, Eastern Europe Asia, Latin America, and the
Pacific, some of the most significant literary works have related to
the experience of exile. While the nature and circumstances of exile
have varied from one case to another, the sense of "loss of something
left behind" is common to all. At a time in which the dispossession of
indigenous peoples and the right to migrate and seek asylum are
continually contested, it seems particularly appropriate to explore the
intimate connection between exile and the creative process in different
periods and political and cultural contexts.
Among many possible threads for the conference are:
Exile and revolt - Grounds for exile - Theorising exile - Exile as
metaphor - Writing and trauma - Return from exile - Exile and
reconciliation - Exile and dispossession - Censorship and exile -
Orientalism and exile - Exile and insanity - Loss of homeland &
tradition - Identity and exile - Exile and the environment - Women and
exile - Exile, memory & forgetfulness - Exile, enrichment and
inspiration - Exile and the avantgarde - Choosing exile - Communities
in exile - Language and exile
Poets and other creative artists from many parts of the world will be
presenting their work during the conference.
Proposed contributions - which may be in traditional or innovative
formats - are invited now and will be accepted or declined within a
month of being received. Proposals for panels relating to literature of
exile of a particular region or historical moment or to a theme or
perspective on exile literature, as well as proposals for single
contributions, will be welcome.
Further information (with a list of key speakers and accommodation
details) will be distributed in October to those who put themselves on
the mailing list. The last date for acceptance of contributions will be
31 January 2003.
Enquiries to:
Mike Hanne
Co-ordinator of Comparative Literature
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New Zealand
Email: m.hanne@auckland.ac.nz
Fax: 64-9-373-7483
Tel: 64-9-373-7599 ext 7106
A website has been established for the conference at
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/SELL/complit/conf.pdf
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