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XVII
ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES
HOSTED BY BOSTON COLLEGE ROMANCE LANGUAGE GRADUATE STUDENTS
PROGRAM
FOR
THE RECORD:
HISTORICAL FICTION AND FICTIONALIZED HISTORY
April 3rd and 4th, 2009
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
CALL FOR PAPERS
This two-day conference seeks to explore the presence of heroic
figures in different Romance Literatures. Relevant themes and topics
may include, but are not limited to:
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HISTORICAL LANGUAGE
- PURE HISTORY OR FICTION
- HISTORICITY OF A FICTION
- FICTION AND METAFICTION
-
ORAL HISTORY AND FICTION
- MYTHIFICATION OF HISTORY
- LINGUISTIC FACT AND FICTION
- HISTORIOGRAPHY IN CONTEXT
- HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION
- HISTORY, HERSTORY, AND FICTION
- PERSPECTIVE, HISTORY AND FICTION
- (CON)TEXTS, HISTORIES AND FICTIONS
- LINGUISTIC IDENTITY: FACT AND FICTION
- MARGINALIZED HISTORIES AND FICTIONS
- DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES IN HISTORIES AND FICTIONS
- GENESIS AND PALIMPSESTS OF HISTORIES AND FICTIONS
- THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HISTORIES AND FICTIONS
- HISTORY OF A TEXT: IMPACTING, AND BEING IMPACTED BY, HISTORY
We
welcome creative submissions and proposals for papers in English,
Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. Presentations will
be limited to a reading time of 20 minutes (8-10 pages). Abstracts
should follow the MLA style and be no more than 250 words;
they must include a cover letter indicating the title, author’s
name, affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
A selection of the presented articles will be published in
the journal of literary criticism Romance Review www.bc.edu/romrev
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