MMLA 2012 Panel - Doris Lessing and the Aesthetics of Debt - Deadline July 2, 2012

full name / name of organization: 
Tonya Krouse / Northern Kentucky University
contact email: 
krouset@nku.edu

This panel seeks papers examining Doris Lessing's critiques of Marxism and capitalism, characters' anxieties about debt and making ends meet, the relationship between debt and colonialism, and/or Lessing's concerns about the relationship between aesthetics and economics.

Please send 250-word abstracts by July 2nd to Tonya Krouse, krouset@nku.edu.

The Midwest Modern Language Association Convention will take place from Nov. 8-Nov. 11, 2012, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

cfp categories: 
twentieth_century_and_beyond