Call for Papers
"Jewish-American Modernisms"
NEMLA 2001
March 30-31, Hartford
"Jewish-American Modernisms" seeks to investigate the ways in which
Jewish-American writers participated in and reacted to the literature and
culture of the American modernist movement.
We especially welcome papers concerning Jewish-American writers not often
discussed in the American context (such as immigrants who wrote in Yiddish
and Hebrew and created vibrant literary movements in America), papers
concerning Jewish writers not often discussed in the modernist context
(such as Mary Antin or Abraham Cahan), and, finally, papers concerning
modernist writers not often discussed in the Jewish context (Gertrude
Stein, for example). Some themes that we foresee emerging concern the
multicultural context of Jewish-American modernism: writers awareness of
and gesturing toward African-American contemporaries and other minority
writers; Jewish responses to canonical high modernism; the ways in which
the cultural anxiety that characterizes the immigrant experience finds a
correlative in the high anxiety that marks literary modernism, the ways in
which, for the Jewish-American writer, a modernist stance could be
acculturationist or assimilationist.
Please send 250 word abstracts or completed papers by September 15 to
toliver@fas.harvard.edu, or mail to Terri Oliver, Department of
Afro-American Studies, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
02138.
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