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Revisiting Slave Narratives II
Call for contributions
« Les Carnets du Cerpac »
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III (France)
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
October 12-14, 2006
Tucson Arizona
This special session invites papers that explore any aspect of popular
women's fiction, both American and British of the 18th and 19th centuries,
but we are particularly interested in papers that discuss women's works that
have been traditionally categorized as "popular" in terms of how they might
be reconsidered. Popular fiction could include novels, short fiction, or
serialized fiction. Please e-mail 300-500 word proposals to
pwashington_at_ucok.edu or mail them to Pamela Washington, University of
Central Oklahoma, Box 182, Edmond, OK 73034.
Deadline extended:
CHARCOAL CANONS
Race and Faith in African American Literature
Call for Submissions
As chords of a song are composed of very specific notes that create a
recognizable sound to those who are familiar with music, so has most forms
of African American literature, even the most diametrically opposed works,
created similar "sounds" in their discourse on race and faith.
Deadline extended:
Call for Papers: Global Connections: Eudora Welty
Paper proposals are invited for a special MLA session that explores
Welty's global connections in her work and / or with other writers
abroad. We seek new comparative theoretical approaches offering
provocative global, postcolonial, and post-regional insights into Welty.
MLA 2006
December 27-30, 2006, Philadelphia
Proposed Special Session
Deadline: March 17, 2006
Contraband in the Americas
"The end of contraband ... is the end of Argentine history."
- Ricardo Piglia
What is the role of the black market, broadly defined, in literature from the
United States and Latin America? How is the notion of a contraband economy
important for rethinking political narrative? What is the function of an other
market? How can smuggling be theorized not only as a motif in literary texts,
but also as a figure for the act of writing in the Americas? Please send
1-page abstracts to David Kelman, dkelman_at_learnlink.emory.edu, by 17 March 2006.
CFP: Kept Boys and Possessive Girls:
Reorganizing Sex, Agency, and Authority in Nineteenth- and
Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures
12th Annual
SOUTHERN WRITERS,
SOUTHERN WRITING
is a University of Mississippi Graduate Student Conference
held in conjunction with the Annual Faulkner and
Yoknapatawpha
Conference. The Graduate Students in the Departments of
English and
Southern Studies invite you to submit abstracts exploring
Southern
culture. Accepted papers will be presented in Oxford,
Mississippi, July
20th through 22nd, 2006.
Topics for papers or panels are not restricted to literature
& may include:
Deadline extended:
A Two-Day Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 8-1=
0 September, 2006.
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Proposals for 20-minute presentations or panels of three to four presente=
rs are invited for a conference on Re-mapping the American South, to take=
place at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 8-10 Septem=
ber, 2006.
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The Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS) will be holding its
2006 conference in Kingston, Ontario, October 19-22. The theme will be
"American exceptionalism." De Toqueville's post-revolutionary definition
of America's special status among nations in fact characterizes American
rhetoric—in history, religion, politics, literature--from its colonial
beginnings to the present. It is implicit in the Puritans' "city on a
hill," O'Sullivan's "manifest destiny" and, most recently, President
Bush's identification of America as "a force for good in the world."
Proposals for papers and panels (max. 250 words) that deal with the
rhetoric of American exceptionalism past and present from any disciplinary
In an essay subtitled "Native American Voices and Postcolonial Theory," Louis Owens criticizes postcolonial theorists
who claim to represent a wide panoply of minority voices yet fail to recognize the existence of a resistance literature
arising from "indigenous, colonized inhabitants of the Americas." Owens asks rhetorically what the indigenous Native
American must do "to be allowed a voice like Shakespeare's cursing Caliban" without resorting to mimicking the
language of the "colonial center" that determines legitimate discourse (in Gretchen Bataille, ed., NATIVE AMERICAN
REPRESENTATIONS, 13, 22). Elizabeth Cook-Lynn has argued for the development of a nationalistic, Third World
Call for Papers: Minstrelsy, Passing, and the
Location of American Racial Identity
CORRECTION! Please disregard the information referring to Ron Gard in the former CFP. Editorial error. My apologies. Mary Song
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Call for Papers
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
at University of California, Riverside
on November 3-4, 2006
Session Title: American Literature After 1865
Papers are invited for the 2006 panel of the MLA Discussion Group “Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English†(MLA Conference, Philadelphia, December 2006). Panel title: “The Languages of Diaspora Drama and Performance.†Papers on U.S. diasporic dramatic texts and performances (theater, music, performance art etc.) that are in any languages other than English or are multi/bi/lingual. Please e-mail abstracts and c.v. to Dalia Kandiyoti by March 15: kandiyoti_at_inbox.com
Thank you.
Dalia Kandiyoti
Department of English, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
"We Wear the Mask": Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Representation of Black
Identity
CFP: The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods Library (Archives: no =
deadline)
The theme of the "SymPo(e)sium," a special session of the 60th Rocky
Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Conference, to be held in
Tucson, Arizona, October 12-14, 2006, will be "Poe and . . . ." The
session organizer would welcome submissions of 250-500 word abstracts or
completed papers on topics relating to Edgar Allan Poe's literary
influence. Papers might explore topics relating to Poe's influence on
another writer or creative artist, Poe's influence on a contemporary
or on a writer or artist who flourished after Poe's time, Poe's
influence on an American or other-than-American writer or artist.
Please email proposals to toliver-c_at_mssu.edu or mail them to Cliff
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SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association) Conference<br>
Forth Worth, TX<br>
October 26-28, 2006<br>
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Panel: American Literature I: Literature Before 1900<br>
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OPEN TOPIC -- All abstracts dealing with novels, short stories, and poems written before 1900 are welcome.<br>
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Please send 500-word abstract and brief CV to Ann Beebe at abeebe_at_mail.uttyl.edu<br>
Deadline: March 15, 2006<br>
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Ann Beebe, Ph. D.<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Department of Literature and Languages<br>
Call for Papers: PSU Americanists Graduate Student Conference
"What's Wrong with Belonging?: Epistemologies of Imperialism and
Domesticity in the Americas"
Date of Conference: 7–9 April 2006
Submission Deadline: 8 March 2006
Submissions/Queries: americanists_at_gmail.com
Call for Papers
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
at University of California, Riverside
on November 3-4, 2006
Call for Papers
The Edith Wharton Society, an allied organization of the MLA, will sponsor
two panels at the 2006 MLA Convention in Philadelphia.
1. Nation, Race, and Citizenship in Edith Wharton's Works. Issues addressed
might include but are not limited to cosmopolitanism; biological, political,
and anthropological constructions of citizenship, race, and nation; exile
and conceptions of "home"; national and transnational identities; and
related topics. Proposals on Wharton's fiction, travel literature,
autobiographical writings, poetry, and work during World War I are welcome.
CFP: 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
North American Studies (2/28/06; journal issue)
Call for journal submissions
Spring 2006: Open Issue
49th Parallel is an interdisciplinary e-journal of the
University of Birmingham (UK) devoted to American and
Canadian studies that looks to promote innovative and
challenging academic work. The journal takes its name
from the 1,270 mile border separating USA and Canada,
and in this sense is keen to encourage dialogues and
debates which transcend the boundaries of customary
theoretical approaches to the culture, history, and
politics of the North American continent.
>>Scholars suggest that the polarizing nature of Transcendental
>>rhetoric ignited the Civil War. Can this be true? How did
>>Transcendentalists react to the reality of war? How does their
>>rhetoric of "holy war" sound today? Sponsored by the Thoreau
>>Society. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Laura Dassow Walls,
>>wallsld_at_gwm.sc.edu.
"Speaking in Tongues": A Study in African-American Literary Discourse,
Culture, and Rhetoric
The Politics of American Studies
AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY, an allied organization:
Two open MLA sessions on the literary use of names. Related fields
include literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, geography, history.
Panels on single authors/subjects invited. 150 word (max.) abstracts
by 5 March to Grant W. Smith <gsmith_at_ewu.edu>
UPDATE: CFP: The Literature of Trauma: Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal
Perspectives
(3/15/06; RMMLA, 10/12/06-10/14/06)
Call For Papers
The Literature of Trauma: Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal perspectives.
October 12-14, 2006
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 60th Annual Convention,
DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona.
The deadline has been extended for Society for the Study of American Women
Writers Panel: Dirty Linen in Public: Race, Religion and Laundry in
Nineteenth-Century America.
This panel will explore the ways in which the lens of "laundry" refracts
literary and cultural practices into their component discourses. An
analysis of laundry and its associated motifs (whiteness, washing,
cleansing) not only foregrounds certain gendered and raced labor
practices, but also draws together diverse discourses such as religious
fundamentalism, psychoanalysis, and materialist accounts of labor history.
Willa Cather's International Connections
Featuring Shadows on the Rock
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers on the conference theme or other aspects of
Cather's life and work are invited for presentation at a
scholarly symposium planned in conjunction with the the
Spring 2006 Willa Cather Conference at Red Cloud, Nebraska,
on June 1-2, 2006. Graduate students and junior professors
are especially encouraged to submit proposals. Symposium
participants will discuss current issues in Cather studies
with visiting senior scholars and will have opportunities to
explore the resources of Red Cloud and the Cather Foundation
archives. Completed papers will be due May 1. Email
Looking West Looking East: Transatlanic Travel Writing (MLA 2006)