[Dino] CFP: "Ambiguities, Alterations, Alternatives ? transforming Nordic literatures"

[Ann-Sofie Lönngren]

Call for papers for the conference

"Ambiguities, Alterations, Alternatives ? transforming Nordic literatures"


Date: 4?6 October 2012

Place: Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden


The literary fields and literary canons in the Nordic countries are  
under constant negotiations and transformations. During the last  
decades, various alternative literatures have evolved beside the  
majority literatures of the Nordic nation-states. These new  
formations, constructed around so called ?alternative? perspectives  
regarding language, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and social class,  
have been categorized as e.g. migration, minority and queer  
literatures. Also the influence of postcolonial theories, queer,  
indigenous, ethnic literary and gender studies mean that discursive  
constructions of national literary canons are being challenged. The  
canon debates during the 21st Century in the Nordic countries prove  
that the notion of a national canon is far from part of a historical  
past. The reason why issues that concern the literary canon evokes  
such strong opinions can be partly understood through the position  
literature has in the building of national identities in the Nordic  
nation-states. This means that the plurality of perspectives in  
literature has the potential to question the very concepts of literary  
canon, canon formations, national self-understanding and identity.

At the conference Ambiguities, Alterations, Alternatives ?  
transforming Nordic literatures we wish to highlight these issues. How  
are alternatives made visible, and which ambivalences and ambiguities  
arise when Nordic literature changes? What are the effects of these  
?new literatures? and works that give voice to hybridity, alternative  
discourses and ambiguity in Nordic literatures? Have these so called  
new literatures always existed but not been recognized by the literary  
establishment (at least not in a way that corresponds with our concept  
of [post]modern society)? What is ?Nordic literature? in the context  
of globalization and when related to migration? And can a modification  
of the idea of Nordic literature transform the very context within  
which it is produced?

We welcome scholars to give 20 minute-talks on these and related  
issues. Please submit an abstract in English of no more than 200 words  
before March 18, 2012. Notification will be given by April 2, 2012.  
Please send your proposal as an attached file to conference secretary  
Ann-Sofie Lönngren, ann-sofie.lonngren(a)littvet.uu.se

Organizers: The Steering Committee for  the research network DINO -  
Diversity in Nordic Literatures  (Satu Gröndahl, Heidi Grönstrand,  
Anne Heith, Rita Paqvalén),The  Hugo Valentin center, The Center for  
Gender Research and The Department of Literature, Uppsala university

Cost: 500 SEK; students 300 SEK. Conference dinner is included.

Key-words: Nordic, national identity, canon formations, transformations


-- 
Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Fil.Dr. (Ph.D.)
Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen (Department of Literature)
Uppsala universitet (Uppsala university)
Box 632, 751 26 Uppsala
Tel: 018-4716188
Hemsida (homepage):  
http://www.littvet.uu.se/om_oss/personal/hemsidor_k-r/ann-sofie_lonngren/
Alternativ e-mail (alternative e-mail): ann-sofie.lonngren at lambdanordica.se
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