Estudios trasatlánticos en la obra Carme Riera: voz, escritura e identidad

CALL for PAPERS
From
Catholic University of America
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Washington, DC
“Estudios trasatlánticos en la obra Carme Riera: voz, escritura e identidad”
March 19-20, 2010

Plenary Speaker:
Professor Carme Riera, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

Keynote Speakers:
Professor María Luisa Cotoner, Universitat de Vic (Spain)
Professor Mario Santana, University of Chicago
Professor Susana Cavallo, John Felice Rome Center (Italy)

We are pleased to announce an international conference in honor of Carme Riera, one of Spain’s leading writers and literary critics. Riera has been awarded a number of prizes, among them the 1980 Prudenci Bertrana Prize for her novel Una primavera per a Domenico Guarini (A Springtime for Domenico Guarini), the 1989 Ramon Llull Prize for her Joc de miralls (A Play of Mirrors), the 1994 Josep Pla Prize for Dins el darrer blau (In the Last Blue), a historical novel which also received the Joan Crexells Prize,the Lletra d'Or Prize, the Ministry of Culture National Prize for Narrative and the Elio Vittorini Prize from the Syracuse Department of Tourism. Her novel La meitat de l'ànima (Half the Soul) was awarded the distinguished Sant Jordi Prize in 2003. In 2000, the Generalitat of Catalonia awarded her the Saint George Cross.
Her novels have been translated into many languages including Castilian, German, English, Dutch and Russian.

The conference welcomes proposals that study any of Carme Riera’s literary or analytical work. We also invite comparative case studies of the author with relation to the following topics:

• History and politics
• Translation
• Transnational studies
• Language and its social and political status
• The center and the periphery
• Gender and Sexuality
• Religious Studies
• Detective Fiction
• National Identity
• Autobiography
• Poetry, The Barcelona School and/or Generación de los 50
• Children’s Literature

Papers may be in Spanish, English or Catalan. Please provide the following by mail or email:

-A 200-word abstract in English, Spanish or Catalan
-A cover letter listing the following:
-Name (last, first), academic affiliation, title of the paper, telephone number,
address, e-mail address.
Reading time for papers is limited to 20 minutes.

Deadline for Abstracts: December 31st, 2009.

Please send submissions to: Urizar@cua.edu