Alejo Carpentier Foundation
Hosts International Colloquium
on
“The New Latin American Novel”
The Alejo Carpentier Foundation and its president, Graziella Pogolotti, extend an invitation to educators, researchers, graduate students, and other scholars focusing on Latin American and Caribbean culture to participate in the international colloquium “La nueva novela latinoamericana a medio siglo de El Siglo…” [The New Latin American Novel Half a Century after “El siglo”]. The colloquium will be held from March 14 to 16, 2012, at Foundation headquarters at 215 Empedrado Street, between Cuba and San Ignacio Avenues, in Old Havana, Cuba. The deadline for proposals is January 20, 2012.
Commemorating the fifty year anniversary since the publication of Carpentier’s El Siglo de las Luces [Explosion at the Cathedral], the symposium proposes to approach this work from different critical perspectives, as well as to assess its impact and significance in the context of the new Latin American novel.
Possible themes include (but are not restricted to): the 60s and the new Latin American novel: texts and contexts; Alejo Carpentier and the new historical novel: from El reino de este mundo to El arpa y la sombra; history, myth and fiction in El siglo de las luces; Intertextuality and interdiscursivity in El siglo de las luces; El siglo de las luces and Baroque splendor; El siglo de las luces, novel of the Caribbean; and the offspring of El siglo de las luces.
Please send a 250-word abstract with the paper title, name and surname of the author, and the affiliated institution to facpresidencia@cubarte.cult.cu by January 20, 2012.
Completed papers should not exceed 9 typed pages (or 2,500 words) for delivery of a 20 minute presentation. Participants should bring a printed copy of the completed paper (with notes and bibliography) and a copy on CD-ROM.
[Many thanks to Ariel Camejo (University of Havana) for bringing this item to our attention.]
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For more information, you may contact the organizers by telephone at (537) 832-7186 or by e-mail at
facpresidencia@cubarte.cult.cuFor more information, see http://www.fundacioncarpentier.cult.cu/carpentier/coloquio-internacional-la-nueva-novela-latinoamericana-medio-siglo-de-el-siglo%E2%80%A6