Synthèse des différents ateliers du prochain congrès de la MLA qui portent sur les questions biographique et autobiographique. (certains de ces appels ont déjà été publiés individuellement dans nos pages)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, AND LIFE WRITING
Text and Image I: Autobiography and Cinema
Abstracts up to 2 pages by 16 March: Reginia Gagnier
r.gagnier@exeter.ac.uk
Text and Image II: Autobiography and Art.
Abstracts up to 2 pages by 9 March: Mary Ann Caws
cawsma@aol.com
Text and Image III: Autobiography and Comix
Abstracts up to 2 pages by 16 March: Hertha Sweet Wong
hertha@uclink4.berkeley.edu
AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1800
Life Writing in the Early Americas
Papers exploring colonial American life writing. May address biography, autobiography, letters, confessions, diaries, or any of the many forms in which life writing is found.
One page proposals and vitae by 1 March: Susan Imbarrato
simbarrato@pomona.edu
19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
American Biographies
In the last few years there have been major biographies of US writers of the 19th century. What does this development say about the state of the profession? Must biography be a rejection of theory?
One page proposals by 1 March: Robert K. Martin
martinr@ere.umontreal.ca
AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES
Oral and Written Narratives of Indian Boarding School Survivors in the United States and Canada
Papers exploring contemporary as well as classic testimonies of Indian boarding school residents.
One page abstracts by 15 March: Virginia Carney
engcarne@acs.eku.edu
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Asian Americans, Ethnographic Specimens, Native Informants
How have Asian Americans been implicated in (auto)ethnography, whether linguistically or through travel writing, life writing, tourism, science, and museum display? Also, through what genre crossings and narrative or cinematic modes?
Two-page abstracts (e-mail submissions accepted) by March 15
Rachel C. Lee rlee@humnet.ucla.edu
COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE
Women Writing History in Pre-20th-Century Europe
Earlier centuries of women's historiography in its many forms, among them pamphlets, treatises, memoirs, nonfiction prose, historical novels, poetry, drama.
Two-page abstracts by 1 March. Kari Lokke
kelokke@uchdavis.edu
THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC PERIOD
Romanticism and the Power of Biography
As biography consumes more shelf space and bandwidth, we invite debate over the authority of lives within our discipline, the media, and society from Romanticism to the present.
Abstracts by 5 March: chsiskin@aol.com
HISPANIC LITERATURES
The Rhetoric of Life Writing in Colonial Spanish America
This session will explore life writing as a subgenre of colonial history, as a public or private document, as a form of counterhistory, and how it relates to power, authority, and politics.
Send one-page abstracts by March 1: Santa Arias
sarias@mailer.fsu.edu
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Early Modern Letter Writing, 1500-1800 (excluding Epistolary Fiction)
Papers on any aspect of early modern letter writing, including historical, psychological, linguistic, material, transmissive, and theoretical components.
1-page abstracts and vitae by 15 March: Gary Schneider
aa1192@wayne.edu
Exploring the Range of Life Writing in British Romanticism
15 minute papers on autobiographies, memoirs, confessions, poetry, letters, journals, essays.
1-2 page abstracts by 15 March: Eugene Stelzig, English Department, State University of New York, Geneseo, NY 14454
stelzig@geneseo.edu
Fictional and Autobiographical Works of Albert Cohen: An Open Session
Send one-page proposals and vitae before 10 March
Nell Kupper, Department of Languages, Northern Michigan University, 1401 Presque Isle Ave., Marquette, Michigan 49855-5375
nkupper@nmu.edu
Ann Frank at the New Millennium
Representations of Anne Frank in theater, film, biography. As Holocaust and universal symbol, has her Jewishness been forfeited in a half century? Theoretical, political, historical considerations of Anne as diarist, symbol, text, Jew.
Papers or 2 page abstracts by 20 March: Sandra K. Stanley or Marilyn Moss, 6065 Cashio, Los Angeles CA 90035
History, Memory, and Literature: French Intellectuals Remember World War II
Session will focus on literary memories and the experience of WWII in all genres. Papers that focus on the teaching of these texts are encouraged.
Abstracts by 15 March: Mary McCullough, Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Byalor University, Box 97391 Waco, Texas 76798 (254-710-4425; fax: 254-710-3799
The Literacy Narrative
Papers invited on historical or contemporary "literacy narratives" (F. Douglass, R. Wright, K. Gilyard, L. Brodkey, etc.) that explore race, class, gender issues in education or define the genre. Also, original narratives.
Send 1-2 page proposals with brief biographies by 10 March: Caroline Pari
cpari@bmcc.cuny.edu
Narratives of Return: Exile, Expatriation, Homecoming
Examinations of narratives of real, projected, or imagined homecoming, exploring how the end of exile challenges, changes, ratifies the terms in which it is conceived.
Abstracts by 10 March: Susan Winnett
winnett@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Writing the Student Body: Narratives of College Life
Novels, memoirs, or films dealing with academia's student side as it relates to sociopolitical, sexual, or moral issues.
Abstracts or papers by 27 March: Gene H. Bell-Villada
gbell@williams.edu