CALL FOR PAPERS
MODERNISM ON TRIAL
a panel to be proposed for the
Second Convention of the Modernist Studies Association:
"New Modernisms II"
October 12-15, 2000, The University of Pennsylvania
The papers in this panel may address various trials that occurred in the
modernist period (1890s-1930s), such as the Oscar Wilde trials, the _Lady
Chatterley's Lover_ and/or _Well of Loneliness_ obscenity trials, the 1918
Cult of the Clitoris trial, the Dreyfus affair, or any other significant
trial of the time. On the other hand, the papers may focus on any
modernist literary text describing or based on a trial. What is the
significance of these trials for modernist literature and other arts? How
are they related to important modernist concerns, such as formal
experimentation in literature and arts, transformations of gender and
sexual identities and related political engagements, the crisis of liberal
humanism, nationalism and fears of racial degeneration, and others? In
what sense were these trials modernist trials or trials of modernism?
While discussing these issues, the papers may also consider any sense in
which modernism - as a period, style, or movement - is "on trial" today.
Suggestions of other connections between modernism and the notion of
"trial" are also welcome.
Please send 1-2 page proposals or complete papers to Dejan Kuzmanovic at
the address below by March 20, 2000. Direct any inquiries to the same
address. E-mail submissions are welcome. Note that this panel has not been
approved yet by the conference program committee. My deadline for
proposing the complete panel is March 30, 2000.
Dejan Kuzmanovic
Department of English, MS-30
Rice University
6100 South Main St.
Houston, TX 77005-1892
dkuzman@rice.edu
(713) 864-8119
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