By mid-twentieth century citizens - and readerships - of European metropolitan centers were faced with the "shock of descendancy" as their nations assumed secondary and tertiary roles behind the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. This panel draws its object of study from the vast European literature set in the colonial world during this period. The 12- to 14-paper format of an ACLA seminar lends itself to the exploration of these late colonial spaces from a range of approaches. Equally welcome therefore are papers weighted toward issues of: narratology, philosophy of literary space, or social contexts such as ethnicity, gender, class, postcolonialism.

Please send abstract and summary CV by 22 September to:
Ken Seigneurie, Lebanese American University, 475 Riverside Dr. (Room 1846), New York, NY 10115-0065. (kseigneurie@lau.edu.lb)