Unita Ahdifard (University of California - Santa Barbara)
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The Travel and Literature session welcomes proposals focused on travel,
odyssey, and mobility through literary lenses as broadly conceived, with
special interest in movement through city, suburban, and rural spaces.
Since this year’s conference theme is “Geographies of the Fantastic and
the Quotidian,” we are particularly interested in essays that consider
the ways in which literary works address the city, suburbs, and rural
spaces as sites for imaginative play and fantastic storytelling, but
also narratives of the everyday and mundane.
Possible topics to
consider include (but are not limited to): the urban odyssey; fantastic
geographies and spaces; flânerie; the city streets as social, political
and artistic stage; the city as literary character; non-places (Marc
Augé), among others.
The Travel and Literature session welcomes proposals focused on travel,
odyssey, and mobility through literary lenses as broadly conceived, with
special interest in movement through city, suburban, and rural spaces.
Since this year’s conference theme is “Geographies of the Fantastic and
the Quotidian,” we are particularly interested in essays that consider
the ways in which literary works address the city, suburbs, and rural
spaces as sites for imaginative play and fantastic storytelling, but
also narratives of the everyday and mundane.
Possible topics to
consider include (but are not limited to): the urban odyssey; fantastic
geographies and spaces; flânerie; the city streets as social, political
and artistic stage; the city as literary character; non-places (Marc
Augé), among others.