Deadline for submissions: May 20, 2017
Full name / name of organization: SAMLA Conference 2017
Contact email: j.sciuto@mcla.edu
Time, Space, and Epistemic Violence in Hemispheric American Literature
This panel seeks papers that explore the depiction of time and space in hemispheric American Literature and the ways in which traditional conceptualizations may be read as a form of epistemic violence. How do the depictions of physical spaces in works from the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States interact with complex configurations of time as progressive, circular, or even anti-linear and irregular—narrative time as composed of a randomized trail of apexes and abysses? How does this literature address/redress/move beyond the concepts of time and space and the harm caused by the imposition of Western paradigms?
Please submit 300-word abstracts, a brief bio, and AV requests to j.sciuto@mcla.edu by May 20th.