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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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