New Perspectives on Old Careers: When High-Brow Authors
Write for Children--NEMLA, March 2001, Hartford Connecticut.
This panel solicits papers on children's books written by twentieth-century
authors traditionally associated with high-brow literature. While much
attention has been given to the children's works penned by
Victorian writers, the literature produced by modern
authors has been pushed aside in favor of their works for
adult readers. As we enter another century, it seems
appropriate that we look back at these familiar authors with
a new gaze.
Topics might include:
Why do authors like Langston Hughes, Randall Jarrell, and
Sylvia Plath write for a younger audience? Why does it
seem that more poets than novelists or playwrights feel
compelled to spin tales for children? What is the
relationship between their children's literature and their
other work? How does the changing market affect their
decision to write for a different audience? How are racial
and gender issues reflected in their books for children?
What does it mean for children to read these famous writers'
children books before they encounter their "more famous"
works later on in the academy? How do these books for
children change the way we view them as writers?
Suggested authors include, but are not limited to:
Paul Laurence Dunbar; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen;
Langston Hughes; Randall Jarrell; Nikki Giovanni; Ted
Hughes; Sylvia Plath; June Jordan;
Carl Sandburg; James Thurber; T.S. Eliot.
Submit 250 word abstracts by 9/15 to:
Kate Stephenson
Bryan Hall
English Department
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Electronic submissions encouraged: stephenson@virginia.edu
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