*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Northeast Modern Language Association Conference*

*Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*

*March 2-5, 2006*

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Abstracts are invited for the following panel:

 *Lifting the Thin Veil: Autobiographic Fictions and Films*. Instead of the=
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memoir, some writers have chosen to present their lives or eyewitness=20
accounts in fictional forms: for example in novels like *The Grass Harp* an=
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*Slaughterhouse-Five*, on stage in *After the Fall* and in films like
*Deconstructing
Harry* and *Almost Famous*. Papers will interrogate the author's choice to=
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"veil" their accounts as autofiction, examining the text's success and=20
limitations as both fiction and memoir. Please send an abstract (250-500=20
words) by September 15, 2005 to Elizabeth Abele: abelee_at_ncc.edu .

  For a complete Call for Papers for the 2006 NEMLA Conference:=20

 http://www.nemla.org/cfp.html

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Elizabeth Abele, Ph.D.
SUNY Nassau Community College

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