CALL FOR PAPERS
LITERATURE & POLITICS SESSIONS
PCA/ACA, April 19th - 22nd, 2000
Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Deadline for Submissions: September 15th, 1999
The 2000 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
meeting will be held at the Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, LA, April 19th to
the 22nd, 2000. Proposals on any aspect of Literature & Politics are
invited for submission to the ACA Area Chair.
For those of you familiar with the sessions, I invite you all back this year
to one of our most enjoyable conference sites. And I would encourage those
of you who have given papers with the area before to consider organizing
panels on your topics and submitting proposals to me by September 15th.
Please contact me if you have questions about this.
I am also looking for proposals that once again challenge the standardized
critical models we have come too readily to accept at times over the last
few years. This might mean readings of the approaches as well as of the
literature itself. I would encourage submissions in all areas of
literature, and offer the following as possible topics:
New perspectives on the politics of ethnic and minority literatures; new
directions in Critical Theory, including but not limited to Marxist,
post-Marxist, Feminist, post-feminist, deconstructive, New Historicist, or
Psychoanalytic approaches; representation of political figures and topics in
written works; political attitudes of authors and the effects on their work;
hidden political agendas in literature; political and/or economic
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 the literature; the
politics of war and peace in literature; character choice as political
choice; apolitical evasions; political vs. aesthetic commitment;
regionalism; the political presuppositions of readers; leadership;
discipleship; rebellion; obedience; disobedience; 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. EMAIL SUBMISSION ARE PREFERRED, but the U.S. mail still
works too. Correspondence by email is generally needed to expedite matters
concerning the conference however.
Please be sure to include the following: your institution's address and your
department (if you are affiliated); specify which address to receive
materials; phone numbers (home & office) are essential. Please secure
funding and be willing to commit to the conference dates before submitting
your proposal.
Submit your proposals to:
George Moore
ACA Area Chair, Literature & Politics
Sewall Academic Program
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: (303) 823-6453
E-mail: mooreg@spot.colorado.edu
if mailing your proposal, please use the following address:
42 Flint Gulch, Lyons, CO 80540
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