A Panel for the Annual Conference of the
American Literature Association
San Francisco, CA, May 22-28, 2008

Panel Proposal:
Trauma, Illness, & Disability in Ethnic American Literature

A Panel for the Annual Conference of the
American Literature Association
San Francisco, CA, May 22-28, 2008

Panel Proposal:
Trauma, Illness, & Disability in Ethnic American Literature

   DISCOVERING, CONSTRUCTING, AND IMAGINING THE ‘OTHER’
       In the Space Between: 1914-1945

        TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPACE BETWEEN SOCIETY
        Northwestern University, Evanston Campus, June 13-14, 2008

This conference addresses the representation or self-representation,
interpretations, or history of those exiled or self-exiled, and
migrant “Others” created between 1914-1945 by two world wars and the
reformation of national, ethnic, racial, classed, and gendered identities
and cultures, centers and margins, and diasporas.

Chelsea House, a New York publisher of reference works for schools and
libraries, is seeking authors to write five critical guides: African
American Writers, Latino Writers, Asian American Writers, Native American
Writers, and Arab American and Muslim Writers. Each title will profile, in
approximately 40,000 to 50,000 words, eight to ten prominent contemporary
figures (subject to approval) and two to four of their major works each.
The ideal authors will have taught or have familiarity with the
multicultural YA literature and writers assigned in high and middle
schools today and have experience producing school-and-library titles
targeting this readership. If qualified and interested, please send a

Musical Modernism: Essays on Language and Music in Modernist Literature
      
Abstracts are invited for a collection that focuses on the ways in which
modernist writers sought to emulate musical forms and styles in their
writing. From Joyce’s claim that writing a novel is like “composing
music,” to Pound’s belief that “poets who will not study music are
defective” through to Eliot’s statement that “a poet may gain much from
the study of music,” there is a sense in which modernist writing had to
be ‘musical.’ As writers moved away from established literary forms,
musical forms often served as the models for new forms in literature.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-16, 2008

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