[Englecturers] FW: Literature of Survivors of Concentration Camps World-wide (6/30/06; collection)

[Steven Axelrod]

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Subject: CFP: Literature of Survivors of Concentration Camps World-wide
(6/30/06; collection)


The Research Group for the Study of the Literature of Concentration Camps at
Wilfrid Laurier University seeks articles for a collective volume on the
Literature of Survivors of Concentration Camps world-wide.

Whereas we take the Shoah as the paradigm from which to establish a
conceptual framework for the study of the literature of survivors of
concentration camps, we endorse Giorgio Agamben's understanding of the
concentration camp as a "dislocating localization" set up by the State,
which represents the "hidden matrix of the politics in which we are still
living" (Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life). We are therefore open
to the analysis of any type of literature produced by survivors of a legally
sanctioned place of exclusion where the condition inhumana forces human
beings to confront the spectre of bare life.  

We are particularly interested in papers that approach the subject from a
comparative literary perspective.  Studies of texts and contexts that have
not yet been analyzed in depth and/or that challenge to the previous study
of the subject are especially welcome. We also encourage interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary approaches, drawing from developments in such domains
as philosophy, history, psychoanalysis, politics, pedagogy and legal
studies.

Possible topics include but are by no means limited to:

1.	Comparative approaches to the literary representation of time and
space. 
2.	The status of the testimony (third-person testimony, artificial
memories). 
3.	The importance of the literature of survivors of concentration camps
for current politics.
4.	Gender differences in the literature of survivors of concentration
camps.
5.	Literature of survivors and ideology as strategies of survival.
6.	How life "after the event" is presented and problematized through
literature. 
7.	Silence and writing (questions related to the unspeakable, the
importance of dreams as representation of life before, during and after the
event). 
8.	The transmission of the experience as represented in the second and
third generations. 
9.	Different literary genres (such as poetry, theatre and opera) for
the transmission of limit experiences. 
10.	The language of testimony (transmitting the experience through a
second or third language).

Manuscripts should be in English.  Authors must provide English translations
of all citations not originally in English.  Please use the most recent MLA
guidelines for documentation style. Maximum Length: 20 pages.  

Please send manuscripts in electronic version along with CV to Dr. Marta
Marin at: mmarin at wlu.ca. Please use the same address if you need further
information. Deadline for submissions:  June 30, 2006

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