This seminar focuses on America/Americas as a paradigm of worlding and as a millennial and aesthetic chronotope. The range of contributions to the seminar, which should be short versions of papers intended for publication, might explore the American chronotope, from its inception as European "discovery," to its globalization as hegemonic agency of MacWorld. Issues such as millenarian eschatology, utopian imaginaries, dystopian locii, diasporic spheres, national and hemispheric habitus, post-national and post-historical faultlines, frontiers of transculturation, and contestatory identities could be examined through the literarycultures of America /Americas.

An abstract and synoptic c.v. should be sent to:

Professors Djelal Kadir and Laura Lomas, Department of Comparative Literature, 311 Burrowes Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802-6203, or e-mailed to same at dxk50@psu.edu, no later than October 1, 2000.