From the mailbox, via Dr. Mikyung Park, Kyonggi University
“Narrating Rights: Literary
Texts and Human, Nonhuman, and Inhuman Demands”
Unpacking and dispersing
rights of various kinds formerly enjoyed by a selected few has been the constant motivation behind the democratization
and modernization of human society.
Human rights and later civil
rights have continuously been constituted and reconstituted in response to the demands
of the laboring class, slaves,
women, subalterns, animals, and things, expanding beyond the boundaries
of class, race, nation, sexuality, gender, species and organism. Calling
attention to the ways in which
literary texts have narrated rights
so as to inscribe these
human, nonhuman, and inhuman demands, “Narrating Rights”
offers opportunities to interrogate literature’s
lasting contributions to questioning, reforming and practicing rights.
The
interrogation is particularly pertinent in this age in which revised and dispersed rights are creating new
conflicts, requiring them to be narrated differently and imaginatively so as to allow all the parties in conflict to
participate in working out the
conflicts. “Narrating Rights”
is a double-edged task that,
on one hand, reflects the singular life conditions or contexts
of a human, inhuman or nonhuman being and, on the other hand, aspires to the perpetual
process of rights’ universal application. In
order to open a forum for literary scholars to discuss how this task has been and will be performed, and thus
aims to renew the close, interactive
relationship between literature and rights,
ELLAK (English Language and Literature
Association of Korea) invites submissions to its 2017 International Conference, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea, December
13th – 15th. Please submit your proposal (250 words) and
brief CV to Dongshin Yi at ellak2017@gmail.com by May 31, 2017.
Topics may include the
following subjects but are not limited to them:
1. Rights
discourse and narrative/ counter-narrative
2. Animal rights
and Biopolitics/ bioethics
3. Natural
rights/civil rights
4. Gender,
sexuality and rights
5. Cultural
rights and identity
6. Rhetoric and
narratology of rights
7. Rights,
(in)justice, and sovereignty
8. Rights and mobility
9. Border crisis
and refugee rights
10.
Ecological/Posthuman rights
11. Rights
and (post)colonialism/cosmopolitanism
12. Racial discourses
and rights
13. Rights and
generational differences
14. Rights and community
15. Rights
in cyberspace
16. Rights and education
17.
Censorship and freedom of speech/writing
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