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Poetic Cartographies: Tracing the Geopoetic and the Geopolitical in
Contemporary American Poetry

Proposed Special Session
MLA 2002
December 27-30, New York City

Papers are invited for a proposed special session at MLA 2002 in New
York entitled, "Poetic Cartographies: Tracing the Geopoetic and the
Geopolitical in Contemporary American Poetry."

Following Graham Huggan's argument that "maps are neither copies nor
semblances of reality but modes of discourse which reflect and
articulate the ideologies of their makers," this panel seeks to
investigate intersections between poetic cartographies and their
corresponding geopolitical claims. The insistence of simulated
landscapes in contemporary American verse points up questions of the
relationship between space and its reproducible image. The panel will
explore linkages between the poetics and politics of space, invoking
contemporary poetic mappings in order to test the status of the
"postmodern" landscape as a place beyond "geographical
monumentality," a nexus of placelessness, overrun by "the rising
hegemony of standardized, undifferentiated spaces, areas depleted of
history, drained of the possibility for relations, identity,
narrative and significant social action" (Brian Jarvis, _Postmodern
Cartographies_).

Please send brief c.v. and 1-2 page abstracts by March 15 to Daniel
Turner by address or via email. Participants must be members of MLA
by April 1, 2002.

Daniel Turner
Department of English
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
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