{"id":2964,"date":"2023-02-21T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/news\/cfp\/cfp-pour-un-collegue-en-etudes-postco\/2964\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:40:27","slug":"cfp-writing-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/news\/cfp\/cfp-writing-the-self\/2964\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Papers\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Writing\u00a0the Self \/\u00a0Writing\u00a0the English-Speaking Worlds:\u00a0LifeWriting\u00a0and Politics (20th-21st Centuries) \u00bb\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

De la part de C\u00e9dric Courtois<\/strong>, Ma\u00eetre de Conf\u00e9rences en \u00e9tudes anglophones (Cultures des pays anglophones – XX\u00e8\/XXI\u00e8 si\u00e8cles)
\nULR 4074 \u2013 CECILLE \u2013 Universit\u00e9 de Lille
\nSecr\u00e9taire de la SEPC (Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des \u00c9tudes Postcoloniales)<\/p>\n

Call For Papers \u00ab Writing the Self \/ Writing the English-Speaking Worlds: LifeWriting and Politics (20th-21st Centuries) \u00bb <\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Lille (CECILLE)<\/strong><\/p>\n

12-13 October 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

This multidisciplinary international conference will mainly focus on the autobiographical genre which, for a long time, celebrated the idea of a sovereign self, traditionally the prerogative of white, heterosexual, middle- or upper-class males (making it a traditionally androcentric, even ethnocentric genre that promotes a universality based on specific exclusive criteria). Traditional autobiographies are therefore often characterized by linearity, narrative coherence and the depiction of a stable self (Anderson). These elements are challenged by some writers from the so-called periphery (Canada, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Nigeria…), for whom the writing of the self constitutes a form of \u201cresistance literature\u201d (Harlow). For Harlow, the writing of the self is intrinsically linked to politics. One can argue it is particularly the case for the \u201cwretched of the Earth\u201d (Fanon). The autobiographical genre therefore embodies a means to put to the fore lives that have been denied, marginalized, what Judith Butler calls \u201cprecarious lives\u201d. It is also a way for (formerly) colonized people to construct their own identity and, in so doing, to demonstrate \u201cwillfulness\u201d (Ahmed), to refuse and reject the (exclusive) universality extoled in\/by the autobiographical genre in its traditional form, and which has been perceived by some as \u201cviolent\u201d (Adorno, Balibar). Some authors therefore put in place a \u201cliving appropriation\u201d of the normative narrative of the self through their (re)working on form, on literary genres (diaries, letters, etc.), by proposing (hybrid) (re)writings that can be deemed \u201cexperimental\u201d (Novak). In these very cases, the experimental aspect is emphasized \u201cfor the purposes of enhancing, reinforcing or drawing attention to the referential level\u201d (Novak). One can also argue that these (re)writings of the self enable a passage from invisibility to (a form of) visibility, from voicelessness to (aiming at) making one\u2019s voice heard.<\/p>\n

The object to study is diverse: (fictional) autobiography, autoethnography, autobiographical comics, autofiction, blogs, documentaries, essays, diaries, memoirs, (insta)poetry\u2026 The intimate link between life writing and social experiments and\/or political stances reveals the intricate crossovers between poetics, aesthetics, and politics. We thus wish to examine how some authors in the English-speaking worlds have sought to engage creatively by refusing and dismantling preset universal models. The committee welcomes proposals related, but not limited, to life writing and trauma\/vulnerability, life writing and gender, life writing and disability,life writing and human rights, life writing and postcoloniality\/decoloniality\u2026<\/p>\n

We will be attentive to the way life writing fosters \u201cdissensus\u201d (or not), and to the proximity between the power to collect your own life into a story, the power to say and the power to act (Ranci\u00e8re). For Michel Foucault, \u201cto write is thus to \u2018show oneself\u2019, to project oneself into view, to make one\u2019s own face appear in the other\u2019s presence\u201d, which implies a close link between ethics, poetics and politics \u2013 the relation of \u201creciprocal and necessary implication\u201d that Henri Meschonnic posits. Life writing can become transformative, and shift the boundaries of the world, thereby going beyond the limits of poetics to embrace poiesis<\/em>.
\nThe conference welcomes contributions from researchers working in the field of literature, history, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, anthropology\u2026<\/p>\n

Confirmed keynote speaker<\/strong>: Unoma Azuah, S\u00edobhra Aiken.<\/p>\n

Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words in English. Your abstract must be accompanied by a short bio-bibliographical note (no more than 150 words), to lifewriting.politics2023. Participants will be notified by 15 June 2023.<\/p>\n

The conference is organised by C\u00e9dric Courtois and Claire Dubois, two members of the Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres \u00c9trang\u00e8res (CECILLE \u2014 ULR 4074) of the Universit\u00e9 de Lille. It will take place on the Campus Pont-de-Bois in Villeneuve-d\u2019Ascq.<\/p>\n

Scientific committee<\/strong>: Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding, Vanessa Guignery, Jean-Michel Ganteau, Andr\u00e9e-Anne Kekeh-Dika, Fiona McCann, Fabrice Mourlon.<\/p>\n

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\nANDERSON, Linda, Autobiography,<\/em> London, Routledge, 2001.
\nBUTLER, Judith, An Account of Oneself<\/em>, New York, Fordham University Press, 2005.
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HOWES, Craig, Trauma Texts<\/em>, London, Routledge, 2009.
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