CFP: Women's Narratives in Early America (9/15; SEA, 3/8/01-3/10/01)

From: Rebecca Harrison (engrlh@panther.Gsu.EDU)
Date: Sat Jul 08 2000 - 12:27:28 EDT

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    CALL FOR PAPERS

    Society of Early Americanists - Second Biennial Conference
    Norfolk, Virginia
    March 8 - 10, 2001

    Deadline: September 15, 2000

    PANEL - "Sectarian Sisters: Relocation and Revelation in Women's
    Personal Narratives"

    This panel addresses the ways in which sectarian women used personal
    narratives to express moments of transition and trepidation in their
    lives. Dissenting protestant groups like the Moravians and Quakers
    encouraged the recording of spiritual and secular experiences across
    gender boundaries in forms such as diaries, lebenslauf, spiritual
    autobiographies, and travel narratives. Panelists may explore
    perceptions of space and landscape in colonial America, changes in
    agency through spatial/social mobility, and the intersections between
    the secular and sacred and the public and private in women's narratives.
    Papers focusing on travel accounts and/or ecocritical approaches are
    encouraged.

    Please mail or e-mail 1-2 page proposals by Sept. 15 to:

    Rebecca L. Harrison
    Office of the Dean
    College of Arts & Sciences
    Georgia State University
    P.O. Box 4038
    Atlanta, GA 30302-4038

    engrlh@panther.gsu.edu
    or
    dasrlh@langate.gsu.edu

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