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http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=35 Call for Papers for Seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association's "Global Languages, Global Cultures" Conference on March 26-29, 2009 in Cambridge, MA. * Seminar Title: Latin American Modernismo: Negotiating the Foreign and the Local, the Aesthetic and the Social * Seminar Organizer: Kelly Comfort, Georgia Institute of Technology * Seminar Description: Latin American modernismo has long been characterized as a literary movement that borrows from and imitates foreign, especially French, models and that produces escapist works that privilege the purely aesthetic over the socially engaged. Recent studies by González, Kirkpatrick, Jrade, Aching, Pineda Franco, and others, however, question both of these descriptions by pointing out the importance of local concerns and social critique in modernista texts. The “Latin American Modernismo: Negotiating the Foreign and the Local, the Aesthetic and the Social” seminar will assemble comparative papers that critically reflect on the relationship between the dominant features and aims of Latin American modernismo and the aestheticist, symbolist, Parnassian, Pre- Raphaelite, or Generation of ‘98 movements in Europe. The seminar organizer is particularly interested in transatlantic studies that explore points of commonality and dissonance in the works of Latin American modernistas (Martá , Gutiérrez Nájera, Darío, Silva, Casal, Nervo, Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, Freyre, Rodá, etc.) vis-à -vis their overseas European contemporaries (Gautier, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Mallarmé, Pater, Wilde, Rossetti, Nietzsche, D’Annunzio, Valle Inclán, etc.). Panelists should consider whether Latin America’s peripheral status, uneven development, and delayed or stunted modernization has led to preferences for the foreign over the local, the aesthetic over the social or whether the Latin American context leads to an augmented concern with the local, the national, the political, the economic, or, simply put, with the social function of art and the artist among modernista authors. Papers may be presented in English or Spanish. PLEASE SUBMIT PAPER PROPOSALS ONLINE THROUGH THE ACLA WEBSITE: http://www.acla.org/acla2009/ If you have questions, feel free to contact the seminar organizer at [log in to unmask] -- Kelly Comfort Assistant Professor of Spanish School of Modern Languages Georgia Institute of Technology 613 Cherry Street Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0375 Phone: 404-385-0198 Fax: 404-894-0955 [log in to unmask] www.modlangs.gatech.edu ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html