UPDATE: Contemporary Irish-American Women Writers (9/1/03; collection)
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Extended Deadline
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Too Smart to be Sentimental:
The Fiction of Contemporary Irish American Women Writers
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Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerney, Editors
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Where are the contemporary Irish-American women novelists in Irish =
Studies? Why is no one writing about them? Daniel Casey and Robert =
Rhodes' (1979) edited collection, Irish-American Fiction: Essays in =
Criticism, featured women in two out of ten chapters. Eleven years =
later, Charles Fanning's (1990) The Irish Voice in America, mentioned =
popular novelists Colleen McCullough, Joan Bagnell, Carol O'Brien Blum, =
and Caryl Rivers; discussed the works of Elizabeth Savage, Elaine Ford, =
Susanna Moore, Diana O'Hehir, Mary Gordon, and Ellen Currie; and paid =
tribute to Elizabeth Cullinan and Maureen Howard. Little has been done =
since.
We propose to fill this gap. We are soliciting 15-20 page essays which =
introduce the works of contemporary Irish American women novelists to =
readers inside and outside the academy. Eschewing jargon, these essays =
should describe the authors' key works, draw on relevant criticism, =
discuss how they represent Irish American voices, and, whenever =
possible, contextualize this information by including an interview with =
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Preliminary Table of Contents
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Maeve Brennan, by John Menaghan
Elizabeth Cullinan, by Kathleen McInerney
Mary Doyle Curran, by Jules Chametzky
Emma Donohue, by Stacia Bensyl
Gabrielle Donnelly, by Gabrielle Donnelly
Tess Gallagher, by Mary Ann Ryan
Doris Kearns Goodwin, by Bridgette Gurry
Mary Gordon, by Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
Lucy Grealy, by Megan Sullivan
Maureen Howard, by
Mary McCarthy, by Sally Barr Ebest
Alice McDermott, by Beatrice Jacobson
Mary McGarry Morris, by Patricia Gott
Erin McGraw, by Eileen Morgan
Joyce Carol Oates, by Susan Araujo
Anna Quindlen, by Connie Kirk
Maura Stanton, by Jacqueline McQueen
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We are still soliciting essays on Jean McGarry, Eileen Myles, Kathleen =
Ford, Eileen Fitzgerald, Valerie Sayers, Colleen McCullough, Elizabeth =
Savage, Elaine Ford, Diana O'Hehir, and Ellen Currie. =20
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Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2003 =20
For more information contact: sebest_at_umsl.edu or kmcinern_at_csu.ed
Kathleen McInerney, Ph.D.
Department of English and Speech
Willliams Science 320
Chicago State University
9501 S. ML King Drive
Chicago. IL 60628
773-995-2337
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