Calls for Papers for “American Literature II: Literature After 1870”
section, M/MLA November 4-6, 1999, Minneapolis
“After Auschwitz: American Struggles with Holocaust Memory”
Five years after its opening, the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum continues to draw enormous crowds, making it our capitol’s
most-visited museum. A commercial-free broadcast two years ago of
SCHINDLER’S LIST--sponsored by the same Ford Motor Company whose founder
once spread virulent anti-Semitism--drew some 65 million American
viewers, while at the same time Daniel Goldhagen, author of HITLER’S
WILLING EXECUTIONERS, not only found his 400-page scholarly work on the
best-seller lists, but was himself greeted in Europe like a rockstar.
"If the Holocaust, as image and symbol, seems to have sprung loose from
its origins,” as Helene Flanzbaum argues in a new collection, “it does
not mean we should decry Americanization; rather, the pervasive presence
of representations of the Holocaust in our culture demands responsible
evaluation and interpretation.”
Papers for this session should address American literary or cinematic
responses to the Holocaust, and may engage either direct or oblique
treatments of the event.
The informal theme of the 1999 M/MLA Convention is "Witness: The Real,
the Unspeakable, and the Construction of Narrative." This theme will
also serve as the topic of the spring 2000 issue of
the M/MLA JOURNAL.
Send abstracts or queries to:
Rob Franciosi
Dept. of English
Grand Valley State University
1 Campus Drive
Allendale, MI 49401
Fax: 616-895-3430
Email: francior@gvsu.edu
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