CFP: The Machine in the Garden (10/1; SW/TX PCA/ACA 3/7/01-3/10/01)
The Machine in the Garden Area
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The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association
March 7-10, 2001
Sheraton Oldtown Hotel
Albuquerque, NM
As Leo Marx observed in _The Machine in the Garden_ (Oxford UP, 1964),
the appearance of a machine in a previously pastoral setting results in
an “interrupted idyll”--a rupture in the otherwise harmonious
relationship of humans and the natural world. The idea of the machine
in the garden as symbolized by the conflict between pastoralism and
urbanization recurs throughout American culture, including, but not
limited to, literature, film, television, photography, art, politics,
religion, recreation, advertising, and urban and rural landscapes. The
Machine in the Garden Area of The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association invites proposals for papers
and panels from all disciplines for its annual conference to be held
March 7-11, 2001 at the Sheraton Oldtown Hotel in Albuquerque, NM.
Last year there were a number of panels, featuring papers on topics such
as: “Car Trouble in Paradise: Henry Miller’s Spirituality and the
Southwest,” “John Ford’s _The Grapes of Wrath_: The Aftermath of
Failure,” “A Garden Path of Iron: Travel Narratives of the Canadian
Pacific Railway,” “‘An Automobile Grew’: Organic Machines in The
Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman,” and “In Search of a Further
Frontier: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.”
The meeting in Albuquerque draws a diverse and engaging group of
scholars. We will once again be using the Sheraton, which is located
within walking distance of Albuquerque's Historic Old Town, containing
over two hundred shops, restaurants, art galleries, the Albuquerque
Museum, and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. Furthermore, it’s
right next door to Little Anita’s restaurant, home of some of the best
huevos rancheros and green chile stew in Albuquerque.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words in length to:
Robert C. Sickels
Whitman College
English Department
345 Boyer Avenue
Walla Walla, WA 99362
509-527-5245 fax 5039
sickelrc@whitman.edu
E-mail submissions preferred. Due on October 1, 2000.
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