CFP: Shifting Paradigms--Children's Lit. (1/13/01; ALA, 5/24/01-5/27/01)

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Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 14:32:19 EST

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    The Children's Literature Society of the American Literature Association
    will be hosting two panels at the upcoming ALA 2001 conference, to be held
    in Cambridge, MA from May 24-May 27. This CFP is for one of the two
    panels, and is called:

    Shifting Paradigms: Changes in Children's Literature.
    Chair: Judith Girardi

    Suggestions for topics include, but are not limited to: the changing
    role of children within children's literature; changes in audience and
    author motive when writing children's literature; the role of age and
    gender in children's literature; how illustration in children's lit has
    changed; children's literature as a genre, its transformations; the
    changing role of child as reader and consumer; etc.

    --one may submit a proposal on any aspect of change within American
    children's literature, including its texts, its audiences, its reception,
    its production, its authors, etc.

    Proposals are due JANUARY 13, 2001. Please send 2 copies of 2-page
    proposals to:

                                 Judith S.Girardi
                               Department of English
                             Claremont Graduate University
                                143 East 10th Street
                                Claremont, CA 91711

    If you submit your proposal via email, please send it to

    judith.girardi@cgu.edu

    *be certain to include* a "snail mail" address and phone number in your
    email message. (Include this information with proposals sent through
    regular mail, as well).

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