CFP: Melvin B. Tolson Out of the Archive (5/5/06; MSA, 10/19/06-10/22/06)
Call for Papers
Panel for Modernist Studies Association 8
University of Tulsa
Oct 19-22
Melvin B. Tolson Out of the Archive
Melvin B. Tolson is one of the few African American writers (along with
James Emanuel, Stanley Edgar Hyman, and four items from Amiri Baraka) to
have his papers housed in the Library of Congress. Composed for 4,000
items including manuscripts of unpublished writing and correspondence
with some of America's most important literary figures, this archive is
an untapped wealth of resources about one of modernisms most important
figures and stands as a document of Modernism itself.