Call for Papers
Representing My Homelands: American Immigrant Women Writers Before =
World War II
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)
First International Conference
San Antonio, Texas
February 14-18
We are calling for papers for a proposed panel that will explore the =
fiction and non-fiction of female immigrants to the United States prior =
to World War II. We are especially interested in papers that examine =
how through non-fiction and fiction (popular or literary) the writer =
negotiates her identity between the land, culture, history, social =
class, etc. she has left and her position in her new country, the United =
States. How does she represent her land of birth and to what aim? =
How does she define or redefine herself to her readers?
Issues pertaining to nationalism, race, class, identity, literary =
authority, writing in English as a second language, the wave of =
immigration at the turn of the century, mourning, and feminism are all =
relevant and welcome.=20
Any approach and other related topics are also welcome.
Please submit via e-mail abstracts and contact information (e-mail =
address, mailing address, phone number, and institutional affiliation) =
by July 20 to
Dr. Kathlene Postma
postma@ra.msstate.edu
Department of English
Mississippi State University
For more information, please email Dr. Postma at the address above.
Completed papers will be due by February 1st, 2000
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