Special Session Proposal for the MLA Convention 1999
We are seeking papers that investigate the relationship between mourning
and nationalism. How do collective acts of mourning help construct the
nation? In what ways do violence and loss found the nation and continue
to be necessary for its existence? Does mourning exemplify a
particular attitude to history or the past that is important to national
identity? In what ways are death and grief essential components of the
symbolism of the state? Is mourning and melancholy peculiar to Romantic
nationalism? We are looking for papers that explore the connection
between mourning, melancholy and nationality in new and exciting ways.
Please send a one-page abstract by March 12, 1999 by email to BOTH
Jennifer Kennedy and Ann Wierda Rowland at the following addresses:
jennifer.kennedy@yale.edu and ann.wierda@yale.edu
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