The Second Bi-Annual Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network

July 11-13, 2008
University of Leicester

How has diaspora shaped contemporary (post-1970) women’s writing? How has women’s writing born out of, or about, diaspora reshaped ideas about home, nation, national and gender identity? What kind of journeys have women undertaken and how are they represented in their work? In what ways does diasporic writing by women unsettle dominant structures?

Essays gathered together from this conference will be published in a special issue of the journal Contemporary Women’s Writing (General Editors: Mary Eagleton and Susan Stanford Friedman; Oxford University Press).
Papers are sought on all genres (literary and popular fiction, poetry, plays, autobiography, travel writing etc.).
Topics might include: Migration and migratory subjectivity, settlers and settlements, location and relocation, the politics of place, home and exile, centre and margin, nation and national identity, hybridity, creole, multiculturalism, human trafficking, asylum, diaspora and trauma, north and south, East and West, South Asian diaspora, African diaspora, Caribbean diaspora, Chinese diaspora, Irish diaspora, Scottish diaspora, Jewish diaspora, queering diaspora.
If you would like to offer a paper, or propose a panel, send a 250 word abstract to

Dr Emma Parker
Department of English, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK, by 31 January, 2008
Email: Dr Emma Parker ep27[at]le.ac.uk

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