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Literature & Politics Sessions

Publié le par Thomas Parisot (Source : CFP)

Pca/Aca, March 13-16, 2002
Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Canada

Deadline for Submissions: September 15th, 2001

The 2001 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association joint meeting will be held at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Canada on March 13-16, 2002. Proposals on any aspect of Literature & Politics are invited for submission to the American Culture Association Area Chair.

I am looking for papers in all fields of literature that raise political questions. I am interested in particular in changing political perspectives in cultural contexts, in academic relationships, in avant-garde and postmodern perspectives, and those with regional focuses. But I am open to any work that can be considered political in a literary context.

For those of you familiar with the sessions, I invite all of you back this year and would encourage those who attend regularly to consider session proposals. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the process.

The following areas are suggestions for proposals: new directions in Critical Theory, including but not limited to, Feminism, post-feminism, Marxism, post-marxism, new historicism, psychoanalytic perspectives, deconstruction, etc.; ethnicity in literature; representation of political figures and topics in literature; hidden political agendas; political assumptions of a work or an oeuvre or literary movement; political satire; the rhetoric of revolution; the revolutionary as heroine or hero; political ideology; political climate of a period as reflected in its literature; the politics of war and peace in literature; character choice as political choice; apolitical evasions; political vs. aesthetic approaches; regionalism; the political assumptions of readers, etc. etc. etc.

One page proposals accepted until September 15th.

Session proposals should include (3-4) titles and abstracts of papers for the session, chair's name and session title (and all required information for each participant as listed below)

Please make sure that your submission includes all of the following information: (incomplete submissions will not be considered)

1) Presenter's complete name and academic title (rank, grad. student, etc.)
2) Paper title
3) Academic affiliation and address; complete with city, state, zip code, that is zip code. Let me say again, zip code.
4) Phone numbers: office and home numbers
5) email address; I need at least one email address for each participant. Please make sure you email address is correct.

Email submission are preferred.

If you must use ground mail, please be sure to include phone numbers and email addresses where you can be reached. Please do not fax submissions to Sewall Academic Program. Call if you have a deadline problem. If mailing your proposal, please use the following address ONLY: 42 Flint Gulch, Lyons, CO 80540.

Please secure funding and be prepared to commit to the conference dates before submitting your proposal.

Submit proposals to:

George Moore
ACA Area Chair, Literature & Politics
Sewall Academic Program
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: (303) 823-6453