Call for Papers: Manifest Destiny and Its Images/Realities
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Associations
Conference
March 7-10, 2001
Albuquerque, NM
Histories, Romances, and Fictions: Imagining Mexico in Nineteenth-Century
America
The SW/Texas PCA/ACA invites papers or panel proposals on the subject of
Mexico in U.S. cultural production before the Civil War. More
specifically, we're interested in any paper or proposal that examines the
historical, romantic, or fictional discourses regarding Mexico and Mexicans
at mid-century. Proposals considering Mexico and Mexican Americans in the
U.S. after the Civil War will also be considered if they relate to the
general topic. Studies within one of the following areas are especially
welcome:
1820-1845
Prescott's histories; national romances; Texas revolt and annexation; the
Oregon Question vs. Mexico; Manifest Destiny.
1846-48
The Mexican American War and popular literature, political debates,
soldiers' accounts, songs and poetry, military histories and technologies,
the American Renaissance, European Revolutions, domestic ideology on the
border, sectional debate, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
1850-1865
Mexican American citizenship status; land grants and the 1851 Land Law;
Gold Rush and travel narratives; Mexican American resistance; Civil War and
Reconstruction in the Southwest; dime novels; Mexican American cultural
production.
Paper proposals should include individual abstracts (250 words) and a short
CV; panel proposals should include a description of the panel, individual
abstracts (150 words each), and short CVs of each panelist. Deadline for
submission is December 1, 2000. Send all materials to:
Jesse Alemán
Department of English
217 Humanities
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-7452
jman1@unm.edu
SW/T PCA/ACA web page: http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca/
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