CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals for a Special Session at MLA 2001 (12/27 – 12/30)
Fright & Melville
This panel invites presentations exploring the experience of fright in
the works of Herman Melville. In various ways throughout his career,
Melville represents encounters with the colonial and racial other, with
class difference, with disease and with sexual “deviance” through the
experience of fright. What does fright reveal about the complex
processes of racializing, of othering in mid-19th century America? What
can beggars, silent and unproductive employees, poor man’s riots over
rich man’s crumbs, and the fright these produce, tell us about class
constructions and differentiations? How does fright pose a challenge to
the ways readers comprehend the diseased and/or sexually “deviant” body?
Abstracts or complete papers by March 15 to Kenneth Speirs:
kspeirs@yahoo.com
-- Kenneth J. Speirs Foreign Literature Department Tunghai University Taichung 40704 Taiwan Tel: (04) 359-0253, ext-24 Fax: (04) 359-4002=============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu ===============================================
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