CALL FOR PAPERS
For a proposed special session at the MLA annual convention
December 27-30, 2000
Washington, D.C.
"Late Nineteenth-Century American Brotherhoods"
This proposed panel seeks to investigate the manner in which relationships
centered in brotherhood became central to the social, political, economic,
and literary landscape of the American nation in the final decades of the
nineteenth century. Possible brotherhoods for discussion include:
military units during the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, Freemasonry and
other voluntary fraternal orders, trade unions, and political
organizations such as the Nationalist movement. Questions to be addressed
include: What accounts for the rise in popularity of voluntary fraternal
associations during this time period? Why the turn to "brotherhood" for
negotiating relationships between men? What are the connections and
discrepancies between literal and imaginary brotherhoods? How do
conceptions of brotherhood come to be tied up with notions of class,
gender, and the nation? How do relationships centered in brotherhood come
to constitute different forms of masculinity (and femininity)?
Interdisciplinary approaches which connect historical and sociological
material to literary representations of brotherhood are particularly
encouraged. Mail or e-mail 1-2 page abstracts by March 15, 2000 to
Matthew R. Davis, University of Washington, Department of English, Box
354330, Seattle, WA 98195 or to <mrdavis@u.washington.edu>.
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