Call for Papers: Southern Literature and Culture
Area Chair: Dr. Christopher Bloss
PCA, national conference
APRIL 8-11, 2009
Conference location: New Orleans MARRIOTT
New Orleans, Louisiana
  
Contemporary Southern literature remains a growing area for
further/future
discussion(s) and criticism(s) within the context of society. This CFP
seeks contributors offering a wide variety of interpretations and
criticisms of contemporary Southern literature and culture against the
backdrop of popular culture and postmodern society, although other
approaches are also solicited. Presentations covering a broad
range of Southern literature pieces, critical approaches, and cultural
interpretations are welcome;
presentations should be developed for a 15-minute reading.
  
Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Any new and rising Southern literary work
• Contrasts between Flannery O'Connor's and other contemporary
author's work
• Explication of canonical work
• Film and television work depicting Southern Culture
* Southern literature in the age of postmodernism
* Gender roles in contemporary work
* Religion and/or feminist themes
* Creative writing in context of the Southâ€"whether you are a Southern
writer or writing in the Southern nostalgia.
* New readings of traditionally-accepted Southern literature
* Film explications (discussion of traditionally “southern” elements)
* Anything dealing with Southern literature or culture
* Comparative readings.
*Home Remedies
*Legends
*Biography
*Original fiction and poetry are also welcome.
  
These are only suggestions, and all approaches and subjects are welcome
and
appreciated. Film, art, archival histories, oral histories, anything,
basically, is open to discussion. The goal is to learn more about the
South and its parameters.
  
Please be open and creative with the items you propose; all submissions
concerning popular culture are considered. Additionally, if you have a
panel that deserves special attention, please let me know in your letter
or email so I can recommend it to the PCA administration. Basically,
anything dealing with the South is fair gameâ€"film, novels, stories,
poetry, theory, recipes, etc., anything remotely Southern fits the
bill!
  
Please submit a no more than a 250-word abstract to Dr. Christopher
Bloss, Area Chair, by November 9, 2007. Contributors will be notified by
email within two days of submission. The conference takes place April 8-
11. Please submit an email abstract (Word or RTF only) to:
chris.bloss_at_gmail.com.
  
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or require
additional
information.
• Graduate students are encouraged to apply. This is not simply
a forum for seasoned professionals, although they are also welcome, but a
place to experience the art of presentation in a comfortable
environment.
Information about hotel reservations and conference registration may be
found at the conference web-site. Check the conference web-site as the
time grows closer at http://pcaaca.org/conference/national.php
   

--Dr. Christopher R. Bloss(706) 341-7447=================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List cfp_at_english.upenn.edu more information at http://cfp.english.upenn.edu===================================Received on Mon Jul 21 2008 - 14:55:33 EDT