Call for Papers
MAPPING WOMEN
A panel to be proposed for the Modernist Studies Associations conference
"New Modernisms II"
University of Pennsylvania, October 12-15, 2000
Building on recent debates about the gendered nature of the notion of
flānerie, we wish to explore the meeting points between women and cities in
modernist texts (approx. 1880-1940) from a dual perspective:
WOMEN MAPPING: how do women experience the modern city? How do female
authors (Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Colette, Anais Nin)
write about their cities? What spaces of the modern city can women
legitimately occupy? How do women rebel against the narrow confines of their
steps in the modern city?
MAPPING WOMEN: how is the feminine described/defined in modernist works
about the city? What is the female sphere of influence in the male
modernist's city: the department store (Emile Zola's Ladies Paradise), the
brothel (Henri Toulouse-Lautrec) or the domestic living room (Henrik Ibsen's
A Doll's House)? How do male writers imagine the interaction between their
female protagonist and the city?
Papers of all theoretical approaches, disciplines and national literatures
are welcome. Interdisciplinary and comparative analyses are especially
encouraged.
Please send a 300-word abstract by March 25, 2000 to any of the following
addresses:
Andrea Fabry
andrea_fabry@hotmail.com
SUNY Stony Brook
Department of Comparative Literature
Stony Brook, NY 11790-3355
OR
Maria Andrade
mandrade@ic.sunysb.edu
SUNY Stony Brook
Department of Comparative Literature
Stony Brook, NY 11790-3355
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