Call for Papers: Society for Early Americanists
Panel Title: "'A General Civilization of Mankind': Collective
Identities and Australia, New Zealand, China, and "the Antipodes"in
Early American Writing"
Society for Early Americanists
Biennial Conference: March 8-10, 2001
Norfolk, VA
Please send or e-mail a one-page abstract by September 15, 2000 to:
Jim Egan
Box 1852
Department of English
Brown University
Providence, RI 02192
(401) 863-3737
Jim_Egan@brown.edu
Description:
This panel will explore the use of images of Australia, New Zealand,
China, and other "antipodean lands" in the production of identity in
early America. From newspaper accounts of Captain Cook's
"discoveries" to Benjamin Franklin's "Plan for Benefiting the New
Zealanders" to J. Hector St. John de Cr=E9vecoeur's invocation of "the
emperor of China ploughing," early American writers used the lands
and peoples of what they referred to as the "opposite side of the
world" to give meaning to many of the categories of collective
identity we like to think of as distinctly modern. Papers should
explore images, descriptions, and/or references of or to China,
Australia, New Zealand, or any community-real or imagined-in American
writing before 1820. Papers that focus on some Transatlantic use of
such images, descriptions, and/or references are especially welcome.
Literary, anthropological, historical, and other disciplinary
approaches are welcome.
Jim Egan
Associate Professor
Department of English
Box 1852
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-3737
Jim_Egan@brown.edu
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