REPRESENTING REGIONALISM, NATIONALISM, AND INTERNATIONALISM IN THE SPACE
BETWEEN, 1914-1945.
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, May 17-19 2001
Keynote Speaker: Jane Marcus
Plenary Panelists (to date):
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
M. Keith Booker
Phyllis Lassner
Submissions invited for papers to be presented at the fourth annual
conference of The Space Between, a scholarly society for the study of
literature and culture during and between the wars:
Papers illuminating any aspect of this general topic are welcome,
especially those that are interdisciplinary in nature, those that concern
overlooked texts or understudied writers and artists, or those that offer
new approaches to canonical works. We encourage scholars working in film,
theater, history, and art history, among other possible approaches to our
subject.
The following questions are intended to suggest but not limit areas of
enquiry:
How does regionalism as a generic definition assume particular meanings in
American art and culture between 1914 and 1945?
How does the concept of regionalism take on different meanings when
applied to or ascertained from Canadian, British, European, Latin
American, or Asian writers and artists of the period?
How did concepts of regionalism and nationalism change within specific
areas between the First and Second World Wars?
What kinds of relationships between regionalism and nationalism emerge in
the artistic and cultural production of the period?
How is nationalism defined differently by different cultural
representations of the period?
How is the emergence of internationalism as a political ideal represented
in the period's cultural productions?
How do such culturally defined aesthetic movements as the Harlem
Renaissance and New York Jewish Socialist literature, or expatriate and
exilic cultural production complicate our understanding of nationalism and
internationalism?
How does nationalism inflect and disturb the boundaries between the class
designations of proletarian and modernist movements?
Abstracts should be submitted by December 1, 2000 to
Christina Hauck
Department of English
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
or by email: hauckc@ksu. edu
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