The configuration of the nation-state as a space that concerns itself with sovereignty, whether locally, transnationally or geopolitically, is often at odds with its supposed "others" in terms of national historiography. As Anne McClintock, among others has pointed out, in thinking through the time of the nation, men and women are positioned differently: placed discretely, for example, upon the terrains and timeframes of metonomy and metaphoricity, respectively. This panel invites papers which examine the impact of gendered national constructions in colonial/postcolonial contexts. Some topics may include:

• How are the processes of decolonization disrupted/interrupted/stabilized through these gendered constructions?
• How are nation-state formations consolidated by and through gender and sexual configurations?
• What are the temporalities of gender and sex within the time of nation-state development or becoming?
• Through what textual and material processes can we trace the relations between sex, gender, nation-states, and their intertwined histories?
• Papers are invited from a wide variety of analytical approaches, dealing with diverse possible source materials, such as historical texts, cultural formations, fiction, film, etc.

Please send one-page abstracts by October 15, 2000, to:

Priya Jha, Comparative Literature and Humanities, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0331 (jha@spot.colorado.edu)