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Autobiography

Publié le par René Audet (Source : Liste CFP)



CALL FOR PAPERS

Central New York Conference on Languages and Literatures
Cortland, New York
October 28-30, 2001

Panel Title: Autobiography
Panel Chair: Kathryn L. Kleypas
Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2001

In his book INVENTING IRELAND, Declan Kiberd observes that "...nation-building can be achieved by the simple expedient of writing one's autobiography: and autobiography in Ireland becomes, in effect, the autobiography of Ireland. To read the autobiographies of Yeats, George Moore or Frank O'Connor...is to be constantly impressed and unnerved by the casual ease with which they substitute themselves as a shorthand for their country, writing an implicit and covert constitution for their republics in images of their very creation."

I would like to compile a panel which examines autobiography as nation-building. I am interested in submissions from all national traditions and eras. The definition of "nation" is very open.

Please submit short abstracts in the body of the e-mail message before July 15 to kleypas@usc.edu.

Kathryn L. Kleypas
Advanced Writing Program
University of Southern California

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