CFP: [American] Off the Road: The Wayside in American Literature
Off the Road: The Wayside in American Literature
40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts
This panel will examine not the road so much as what is just off the road,
what happens on the waysides of American literature, and who (or what)
gathers in and at the taverns, bars, motels, farmhouses, barbeque joints,
tourist traps, fast food restaurants, diners, gas stations, shacks, barns,
fields, and ditches that line the road. How do these sites, their
placement on the wayside, and their cultural, chronological, and
geographical positions, appear as significant themes or images in American
literature? Where do they work in tandem with the symbol of the road, and
where do they work against it? What do they tell us that the road can’t?
Proposals (300-500 words) to Colin Clarke at clarkeco_at_sunysuffolk.edu.
Deadline: September 15, 2008
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)
The complete Call for Papers for the 2009 Convention will be posted in
June: www.nemla.org.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel;
however panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants may
present a paper at a panel or seminar and also present at a creative
session or participate in a roundtable.
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