The Child in French and Francophone Literature and Film

CALL FOR PAPERS

31st Annual French Literature Conference

March 20-22, 2003

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (USA)



The Child

in French and Francophone Literature and Film



The French Literature Conference at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, invites papers on literary and cinematic constructions of childhood and adolescence.



Children and adolescents pervade French and Francophone literature and film. They people fables, fairy tales and works written specifically for children and young adults and frequently appear as protagonists, narrators and social critics in "adult"

literature.



Possible approaches to the topic might include:



Fictional and cinematic representations of childhood and adolescence,

Books for children and young adults, Theatre for young people, Adolescent authors,

Child protagonists, Novel of adolescence, Bildungsroman, "Invention"of Childhood, Childhood or Adolescence as historically, socially or culturally specific constructs, Autobiography, Diary, Rites of passage, Loss of innocence, Nostalgia, Regression, Psychoanalysis, Incest, Infanticide, Suicide, Education, Parent-Child Relationships (bonding, imprinting), Crossing boundaries between children's literature and adult literature, Translation, etc.



Papers should relate the conference topic to French-language literature and/or film of any period or provenance. Two anonymous copies of complete papers, in English or in French, must be submitted by November 1, 2002. Submissions should be prepared according to the MLA Handbook and should be held to a twenty-minute presentation time (no more than 10 double-spaced pages). Participants are encouraged to expand their presentations to no more than 18 typed double-spaced pages for publication. Proceedings will be published as volume XXXI of French Literature Series (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi).



For more information, please contact:



Daniela Di Cecco

Department of French and Classics

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

Office phone: (803) 777-0799 or (803) 777-4881

Fax: (803) 777-0454 Email: daniela@sc.edu

URL: http://www.sc.edu/fren/events/flc/index.html