摘要：The Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) held its twentieth annual conference at the University of Münster between 21-24 May 2009 in Münster, Germany. The conference was coordinated by Mark Stein, Silke Stroh, Marga Munkelt, and Markus Schmitz, all of whom are based at the University of Münster. Around 300 delegates from thirty-five countries attended. This four-day conference featured three major keynote speakers, four prominent authors, and 100 presenters whose abstracts had been selected fromaround 300 submissions. This event explored translocation, an increasingly significant theme of postcolonial studies. The conference promoted a critical evaluation of postcolonial texts and media while investigating their institutional academic contexts. The concept of “translocational identity” is part of a new debate in postcolonial theory. From border regimes and border crossings to translocal space, from translocal food to cyber diasporas and diasporic literature, participants sought to address major paradigms of postcolonial critique ...
