Emergent Communities in Contemporary
Experimental Writing
May 4-5, 2012
This conference will focus on ways in which contemporary writers make use of the notion of community both critically and creatively across many different arenas, including small press publishing, virtual and digital work, academic affiliation and teaching, interdisciplinary and performance art, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations.
We are particularly interested in considering how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century, and how writers theorize and make use of various conceptualizations and practices of community. We wish to interrogate what might otherwise be considered fixed and stable meanings of “community,” both embracing its productive and generative connotations and its contradictions. How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation, affiliation and creation?
Abstracts are due December 1, 2011. Download the CFP
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We are particularly interested in considering how writing communities might be changing historically in the early twenty-first century, and how writers theorize and make use of various conceptualizations and practices of community. We wish to interrogate what might otherwise be considered fixed and stable meanings of “community,” both embracing its productive and generative connotations and its contradictions. How are writing communities that share an often contested collective vision themselves experimental formations for attempting new modes of relation, affiliation and creation?
Abstracts are due December 1, 2011. Download the CFP
Visit the Conference Blog
