http://www.acla.org/acla2010 ACLA 2010 New Orleans Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:31:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This seminar proposes to examine the suggestive role of music in film and how the aesthetic of one impacts the aesthetic of the other. The process of understanding a film script (or its founding novel or play) and the transformative process into film music will be the principal focus. The ... http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1187 What is poetic utterance doing when it addresses itself to HIV? Moreover, what is the basis upon which poetry and HIV can be expressive of one another? The first wager of this panel is that the function of poetry as an aesthetic practice can not be accounted for in terms of ... http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1178 Ravaged by regular epidemics and illness, New Orleans has welcomed a wide range of medical traditions over its three-hundred-year history. The diverse origins of these traditions reflect the people, the art, and the artifacts of this creolized culture. Herbals, folk medicine, homeopathy, spirit-infused remedies, and practices based on theories of ... http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1175 Jazz is the product of an encounter between Europe and Africa in the New World. The same can be said of francophone literature. Kamau Brathwaite, in his article “Jazz and the West Indian Novel,” defines jazz as music “played in an Africanized manner on European instruments.” We can extend this ... http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1159 The presence of a transnational community entails the recognition of a non-singular national identity, a paradigm understood, variously, as a shattered norm or a hybrid ideal. While focusing on how this transnationality gives voice to diaspora and creole communities, we will examine how transnational spaces, bodies, and motion are ... http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1153 General Pool (submissions to the conference theme at large) http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1147 Papers for this panel should explore one or more texts that propose, depict, suggest or imply a radical form of diaspora -- radical in the root sense of the term: where the geographic or historical dispersal of elements has been cut off from its grounds in a future place or ... http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1140 Claims of a spectral world resonate within film and literature, spawning their own ghostly genres and creating an audience eager to consume representations of the paranormal. This seminar, open to a variety of disciplines and media, seeks to explore how literature and film generate a supernatural dimension through filmic and ... http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1136 Following on Massimo Montanari’s 2006 volume Food Is Culture, this seminar invites papers on any topics involving food and world literature. http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1133 This panel focuses on autobiographical writings of twentieth-century poets, writers, and critical thinkers who have been exiled or dislocated from their place of origin. Such personal narratives offer a unique and significant contribution to questions concerning the notions of “place,” “borders” and “diaspora”; they also frequently attest to personal suffering ... http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=1130