CFP: Margaret Fuller (3/15; MLA '00)

From: Jeffrey Steele (jsteele@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 11:46:35 EST


CALL FOR PAPERS--

MLA CONVENTION IN WASHINGTON. D.C.
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THE SPACES AND BORDERS OF MARGARET FULLER'S WRITING.

Fuller's spatial practices.
         How do spatialized paradigms (for example, the mother's garden,
the West) organize her writing?

Cultural or literary geographies.
        Is _Woman in the Nineteenth Century_ a cultural geography?

Travel writing.
        For example, (Italy or descriptions of New York as travel writing.

Representations of social boundaries or political limits.
       How does Fuller enact a process of border crossing? What borders
are being crossed?

Narrative mobility.
       How does Fuller perform narrative mobility/ traveling subjectivity?
 
Intersections between material, social, and literary domains.
        How do geographical models help to clarify the ideological work of
Fuller's writing?

Post-colonial paradigms.
        How applicable is post-colonial theory to Fuller's writing. Which
models work best?

Proposals and vita by March 15. Inquiries welcome.
Jeffrey Steele, UW-Madison, jsteele@facstaff.wisc.edu.
                                               

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