Identity, Migration and Women's Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression

Identity, Migration and Women's Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression

December 17-19 2008

University Of Málaga (Spain)

Since the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a commitment on the part of women writers and scholars to revise and rewrite the history and culture of colonial and postcolonial women. This conference seeks to examine issues of gender and boundaries, analysing the reality of women as colonial and postcolonial subjects. We will look into the transformative significance of the trans(national) migratory movements and their role in the construction of diasporic identities. We will also consider the darker reality of alienation, discrimination and trauma together with mental, emocional and espiritual unbalance as caused directly or indirectly by immigration, racism and colonization across a range of critical perspectives. This analysis includes the three continents: Europe, Africa and the Americas. We welcome papers that investigate through cultural and literary representations the contributions of women to the construction of knowledge in an ever-changing, global world as migrant subjects. We will also focus on the female body as the site of physical violence fighting stereotypes about women s representations.

The languages of the Conference will be English and Spanish.

An electronic version of all the papers presented at the Conference will be published.