We welcome contributions that revisit “re-vision” in the context of “feminist/gender theory and its discontents,” evaluate its continued ability to empower women readers and writers today, and/or look into its contemporary reception and redeployment in various postfeminist contexts, including its co-optation for more commercial uses in a variety of “re-visionary fictions.” We are especially keen on taking the concept beyond the confines of the US and Europe, as a “travelling concept,” across World Literature/Comparative Literature. We therefore welcome papers that explore its capacity to generate new texts and alter/native ways of relating to existing, elected or imposed, traditions by re-visioning them and “writing back” to them. We are also interested inquiries into “re-vision” as a concept for the theorization of practices of affiliation and disaffiliation, reception, and transmission across cultures and languages and their gendered aspects and dimensions.
Topics might include:
Rewriting the literary classics
Re-vision and tradition
Re-vision, the past and the future
Re-visions and the literary marketplace
Popular fiction / genre fiction and re-vision
Re-visioning myth and fairytale
Postcolonial and queer re-visions
Prequels and sequels
Rewriting feminist classics – Jane Eyre...
Postfeminist re-visions / Jane Austen and chick-lit
Re-visioning as publishing phenomenon – the Canongate myth series
Rewriting and memory transmission
Transatlantic and transnational re-visions
Proposals (max 250 words) are to be submitted through the ACLA website: http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php?override=xyzzy
Deadline for Paper Proposals: November 12, 2010
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