The SW/Texas Popular Culture Conference, to be held in Albuquerque, NM
March 7-10, has extended its deadline for paper or panel proposals to
January 19, 2001. I'm still interested in accepting papers to be presented
under the area of "Manifest Destiny." Among others, I've recieved papers
on the pulp literature of the Mexican War, Ruiz de Burton's novels, the
work of Jovita Gonzalez, and Chicano/a cultural geography. I encourage
anyone doing work on Western/border history or writing, the Recovery
Project, legal and land battles in the Southwest, etc. to send me an
abstract as soon as possible. See the Call for Papers below. Visit the
SW/Texas PCA website at:
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca
J-
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Call for Papers
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Associations
Conference
March 7-10, 2001
Albuquerque, NM =20
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=20
in U.S. cultural production before the Civil War.=20
More specifically, we're interested in=20
any paper or proposal that examines the
historical, romantic, or fictional discourses=20
regarding Mexico and Mexicans at mid-century.=20
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.
Deadline for submission is January 19, 2001. Send all materials to:
Jesse Alem=E1n
Department of English
217 Humanities
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
(505) 277-7452
jman1@unm.edu
SW/T PCA/ACA web page:=20
http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca/
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Jesse Aleman
English Department
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
jman1@unm.edu
jaleman5@yahoo.com
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Jesse Aleman
University of New Mexico
Department of English Language and Literature
Humanities 217
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1106
(505) 277-7452
jman1@unm.edu
jaleman5@yahoo.com
"Ach, Vanka's gone to Petersburg,
I won't wait till he comes back."
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