"Toward a Theory of American Testimony"
Abstracts are being sought for a proposed session of the Midwest Modern
Language Association Convention to be held in Minneapolis on Nov. 4-6,
1999, on the theory of American testimony/testimonial literature.
Session Description:
What is American testimony? What is the role of testimony in American
literary history and criticism? What is the relationship between the
testimonial in America and the testimonio and/or Holocaust testimony?
How should testimony be taught?
This session will address questions such as these in order to ascertain
the position of testimony within American culture and literature.
Individual papers could define American testimony; offer readings of
previously marginalized testimonial texts; speculate on the lack of
testimony in the American literary canon; discuss pedagogical uses of
testimony in composition or literature classes; argue against the
appropriation of the term, etc.
Please send 1-2 page abstracts by March 31 to:
John Allen
Department of English
Curtin Hall
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
or by email: jonallen@uwm.edu
For more information on the M/MLA or the convention:
www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/
Note: participants must be M/MLA members by June 15.
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