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NeMLA 2014 : Northeastern Modern Language Association

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When Apr 3, 2014 - Apr 6, 2014
Where Harrisburg, PA
Abstract Registration Due Nov 30, 2014
Submission Deadline Sep 28, 2014
Categories    american studies   critical theory   literature   ethnic studies
 

Call For Papers

The humanities “affective turn” continues to resonate in the fields of literary and narratological studies. Like the linguistic, cultural, and ethical turns, the affective bears new modes of inquiry and brands of scholarship: studies of emotion, sensation, bodies, and so on. Yet, while this affective turn seems to contract thought, from communities to singular bodies, the extension of affect to literary study, conceived as a world of encounters, suggests a much wider field. Affect—circulating, ambient sensations—has been activated to understand senses of otherness, such as José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of “feeling brown,” as well as embodied responses to neoliberalism and capitalism, as may be perceived in Lauren Berlant or Steven Shaviro’s adaptations of “affective labor.”


I invite papers that examine how 20th and 21st-century literary and cultural narratives in America engage with structures of feeling and theories of affect. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):


- National bodies/ communities as “structures of feeling” (see, Raymond Williams’ Marxism and Literature);

- Consequences that attend feelings of belonging or disconnection within a community or nation; - The politics of affect in national or social formations;

- Ubanity, tolerance, or cosmopolitanism as affects, rather than subjectivities;

- The function or role of affect and emotion in border-crossing;

- The relatedness of affect to neoliberalism’s disciplinary and regulatory apparati;

- Ethnic/ immigrant/ black American literatures and the use of narrative forms or
genres as critical affect/ structures of feeling.


Please send any inquiries and your 250 – 500 word abstract, as a PDF or Word attachment, to Laurie Rodrigues: rodrigues.laurie@gmail.com.

Deadline: September 28, 2013

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