CALL FOR PAPERS
"Time of Transition: African-American Voices in Mid-Century American
Literature"
A Regional Literary Conference for Graduate Students and Faculty
Friday, April 7, 2000
Minnesota State University, Mankato
This conference will examine African-American writers from 1920 through
the 1960's. We are interested in issues of identity,
interrelationships and literary influences, philosophy, religion and
ideology, America and democracy, gender issues, and the novel as
protest. We hope for a wide variety of approaches, including feminism,
Marxism, gender, cultural, and reader-response to name a few.
Proposals for multimedia presentations pertaining to the time period
will also be accepted.
Paper and panel topics may include:
(We welcome any other suggestions)
Zora Neale Hurston as Anthropologist
Richard Wright and Proletarian Literature
Wright and Existentialism
Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth"
African-American Writers and the Expatriate Experience
The Influence of Jazz
Ellison's criticism of Wright
Visions of the South
Hurston and Feminism
Langston Hughes/James Baldwin and Sexual Identity
Hurston and Contemporary African-American Women Writers
Ralph Ellison and Modernism
Gwendolyn Brooks and the Civil Rights Movement
Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and the Beats
Relationship to Political and Cultural Movements
Langston Hughes and Harlem
Presentations should be no more than fifteen minutes long. Panels will
consist of 3-4 presenters with time for discussion. Proposals for
papers and/or panels should include the following: (1) a title, (2) an
abstract not to exceed 300 words per individual, and (3) a brief
one-paragraph statement about the presenter(s), including academic
affiliation and email address. Selected papers presented at the
conference will be bound and placed in the Minnesota State University
library and made available to the public.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 19, 2000.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 15, 2000.
Submit abstracts to: "Time of Transition"
English Department
230 Armstrong Hall
Minnesota State University
Mankato, MN 56001
Email to: michael.mahon@mankato.msus.edu
FAX# (507)389-5362
"The diversity of American life is often painful, frequently burdensome
and always a source of conflict, but in it lies our fate and our hope."
Ralph Ellison
Minnesota State University, Mankato is an affirmative action/equal
opportunity educator and employer. This document is available in
alternative format to individuals with disabilities by calling the
Department of English at (507) 389-2117 (V) or (800) 627-3529 (MRS/TTY).
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Michael Mahon
michael.mahon@Mankato.MSUS.EDU
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