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This
symposium will focus on the fields of enquiry to which Gordon Brotherston,
at Essex, Indiana and presently at Stanford, has contributed over the past
four decades. It will bring together a group of people with whom Gordon
has worked, whom he has taught, and whose work he particularly admires in
order to assess the present state of research into the 'Fourth World'.
Given Gordon's interests, the
symposium will also feature writers, poets, and translators who have
engaged with the Americas in disparate ways. To paraphrase some of
Gordon's own aims, the symposium aims to expand our collective
understanding of the Fourth World's global significance and of its own
internal logic, and "to attend to the native coherence that has been
ceaselessly splintered by Western politics and philosophy" (Book of the
Fourth World). It aims to explore further the arguments against 'the
slippage between archaeology and anthropology on the one hand and politics
on the other, that is, the destitution of the fourth world inside the
first world' (Book of the Fourth World). Within the context of
Gordon Brotherston's wide range of interests and achievements, it will
focus on the world of the First Americans themselves: those whose early
literary and cultural traditions are now recognised as contributing to the
shaping of a true history of America, and those who, from Chile to Canada,
"hold out still, largely in and near the mountain chains which form the
backbone of the continent" (Image of the New World).
The format will
be informal and flexible, with a mixture of short papers, round-table
discussions, and readings.
We
gratefully acknowledge financial support from the
University of Essex,
Stanford University,
Birkbeck College, the
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
, the
Society for Latin American Studies
and
Blackwell
Publishing
Organising
Committee
Valerie Fraser - Professor at the
Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex.
Peter Hulme - Professor and Head of the
Department of Literature,
Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex.
Ele
Wake -
Lecturer
in Spanish Language and Latin American Cultural Studies at Birkbeck
College, University of London.
Administration
Susan Forsyth -
Associate Fellow, Department of Literature,
Film, and Theatre Studies,
University of Essex.
Website
Cristiana Bertazoni
- PhD candidate, Department of Art History and
Theory, University of
Essex
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