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Enviado el: jueves, 28 de febrero de 2002 01:55 Solicitation of abstracts/articles for a Book on Latin America A FINE LINE: EXPLORATIONS IN SUBJECTIVITY, BORDERS, AND DEMARCATION Raśl Galoppe and Richard Weiner Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne SUMMARY OF THE BOOK PROJECT The dawn of the 21st century has seen a new outlook in the way the Western world is representing itself. From politics to culture and society, first-time scenarios are being produced, some of which are too new to be properly classified, especially under the fallacious positivistic model that claimed supremacy over the past hundred and fifty years. As a direct consequence of "globalization," the internationalization of production, labor, migration, and information, a brand-new reorganization of the world challenges former concepts of subjectivity and cultural configuration. Lines of demarcation are becoming more and more blurred and unstable, which leads to overall confusion and uncertainty. But how arbitrary are these lines? How conventional have they always been? Starting out with the modern tension between Old World and New World, and extending through the construction of a subaltern, subordinated subject as the result of colonialism and patriarchal authority, the creation on new orders and discourses at the service of hegemonic power, up to the postmodern collapse of epistemological unity and the reshaping of ontological categories, the articles in this volume address the question of boundaries and delimitations in terms of race, economy, gender, and marginality. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the collection draws from literature, literary theory, history, and political science to build a comprehensive critical apparatus that highlights and exposes the subjectivity of the new millennium. We are entertaining the idea of dividing the study into 4 parts, which are listed below. However, if the essays do not seem to fit into this framework we may alter it: 1) Discoveries and the New World (15th and 16th Centuries). 2) Colonial Authority and Otherness (17th and 18th Centuries). 3) Revolutions and the Self (19th Century) 4) Fragmentation and Representation (20th Century). Raśl Galoppe and I are preparing a multi-disciplinary volume on borders, globalization, and representations in Latin America for publication (which is summarized above). We have a number of articles from important scholars in the field of literature, such as Henry Sullivan, Edward Mullen, and Margaret Olsen. We need more articles from historians to complete the volume. If you are interested in contributing to the volume please submit an abstract by April 15, 2002 (we plan to have all the completed articled, which will be about 20-30 pages in length, by the end of the Summer, 2002). Send abstracts to the following address via e-mail or regular mail: Richard Weiner Assistant Prof. of History Indiana University at Fort Wayne 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46805 weinerr@ipfw.edu
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