CFP: Exterminating Narratives: Identifying and Resisting Genocidal
Cultural
Logics (Deadline:
9/15/2004)
Seeking proposals for papers for an edited
volume exploring and foregrounding genocide as a cultural and
literary category for approaching narrative with the objective of
identifying cultural logics of genocide that might not typically be understood
as such and also of highlighting narratives of resistance of resistance
to genocide that provide an imagination of an alternative way of
living and organizing social relationships. In the current
critical discourses of literary and cultural
studies, we hear much about
postcolonialism, colonialism, nationalism, globalization, citizenship, and, of
course, paradigms of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Related to
such discourses but much less mentioned are the discourse, concept, and above
all practice of genocide which such critical discourses rarely confront
directly or in depth. These discourses, however, could be mobilized
to help us address, comprehend, and resist the practices and cultural
logics of genocide that, far from being facts of history we seek to understand
retrospectively, are ongoing practices that often elude naming,
identification, and redressas we see by recent events in Rwanda, Bosnia,
Chiapas, and persistently in Native America. Proposals for papers are
sought exploring such issues as how genocide is represented, how it is
narratively recognized, misnamed, or misidentified, how it is defined; what
is the continuum of genocidal logic into practices of everyday life not
usually or
necessarily understood as part of such a logic, such as the logic
of the commodity? What do comparing acts of genocide reveal about its logic?
Papers should deal with specific texts which might include literary works
as well as political texts such as UN policies and resolutions and also
critical studies of genocide such as Samantha PowersThe Problem from Hell,
Philip Gourevitchs work, and others. Inquiries and abstracts
should be sent to Tim Libretti at T-Libretti@xxxxxxxx.
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