Call for Papers
TOURIST CLASS: SHAPING CLASS IDENTITIES AWAY FROM HOME
American Studies Association Conference, 2001
Washington, DC
November 8-11, 2001
Deadline for abstracts: December 1
This panel seeks papers exploring the connection between class
identities and the tourist experience in the United States (from the
perspective of the viewer and/or the viewed). For example, when
travelers venture away from home, how do they maintain (or reshape)
their class identities in settings that may not readily recognize their
class positions? Particularly, how does the tourist's reaction to and
description of local residents and/or fellow travelers serve as a system
for self-identification?
Sources of exploration could be, but are not limited to, travel
narratives, travel magazines, fiction, photographic collections,
postcards, maps, chamber-of-commerce promotions, and advertisements.
Destinations could include national parks, theme parks (Dollywood, for
example), Niagara Falls, Appalachia, the South, Martha's Vineyard,
eco-tourism sites, Washington, DC, Civil War battlefields, and themed
gatherings (such as the Sturgis, SD, motorcycle rally). I am especially
interested in papers that take an interdisciplinary approach. Analysis
of tourism and class from any time period is welcome.
Katherine E. Ledford
University of Kentucky
Please e-mail inquiries or abstracts (not exceeding 250 words) to the
following address:
Or you may mail abstracts to:
PO Box 1311
Bakersville, NC 28705
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