Call for Papers
Panel Title: Plantation America
38th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 1-4, 2007
Baltimore, MD
This panel invites papers concerned with any aspect of plantation and post-plantation literatures from the Caribbean to South America to the American South. Papers that address the legacy and significance of the plantation (as a mode of production, model of labor or racial relations, apparatus of colonial domination, site of creolization, scene of historical trauma, etc.) or that explore Plantation America as a model for transnational or hemispheric studies are especially welcome.
Send abstracts in body of email by September 15, 2006 to lessigm_at_cortland.edu