[NIS_GS:] CFP: Natural Subjectivity: The Textual Making of the Human or Natural Subject (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)
CFP for a panel atthe next ACLA (American Compartive Literature Association Annual Meeting to take place on March 23-26, 2006, at Princeton University.
Title: Natural Subjectivity: The Textual Making of the Human or Natural Subject
Description: This panel seeks to explore the textual constructing of Human, Animal, and/or environmental Subjectivity in relation to each other.
Papers from any theoretical approach will be welcome, especially from: Ecological Criticism, Gender, Postcolonial, Ethnic, Subaltern Studies, Philosophical, or Psychoanalytical perspectives. Different definitions of Subjectivity are also welcome. Though the object of study can be any text/s, fiction
or not, belonging to any period or tradition, the paper should focus on the way the text constitutes the subject (Human, Animal, Env.).
It should seek to answer these or similar questions:
1) How is the Subject constituted within the text on a formal, structural or aesthetic level?
2) Is there any Subjectivity achieved outside the text?
3) Is this a speaking subject? Who is s/he speaking to? What are the consequences of this speech? Is any kind of agency attained through this speech?
4) What is the relationship between the Subjective and the Objective world?
5) What is Subjectivity? What is its relation to the environment? Does Subjectivity necessarily imply consciousness and agency?
6) What are some moral consequences of subjectivity?

Please submit paper abstracts online at www.princeton.edu/~acla06
by Novermber 30, 2005. Sent copy to pferrer@eden.rutgers.edu
Patricia Ferrer-Medina, seminar leader
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