This Roundtable has been approved for the 2000 NEMLA Conference in
Buffalo, NY, April 6-8, 2000.
The New Universalism: Possibility or Fantasy in 20th-Century
American Literature
Far from their claims of universality, enlightenment ideals have been
exposed by feminist, gay, black, and post-colonial theorists not as
emancipatory, but as limited and exclusionary in their application. Do
these findings suggest a new postmodern, post-enlightenment universalism?
How would it answer the criticisms of the old universalism?
>From Henry James to Toni Morrison, the repeated attention this dilemma
of the politics of difference and national identity has received in
twentieth-century American texts suggests that it is a source of
fascination for many modern and contemporary American writers. Therefore,
this roundtable will consider how this conflict is defined, negotiated,
and played out in modern and contemporary American literature.
Please send or email one-page abstracts by Sept. 15, 1999 to:
Ellen Friedman
The College of New Jersey
Box 7718
Ewing, NJ 08648-0718
Fax: 609-637-5164
Email: friedman@tcnj.edu
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