CFP: The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader (5/15/01; collection)

From: Caroline Levander (clevande@rice.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 00:46:08 EST

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    Call for Submissions for The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader

    This collection takes the recent critical renaissance in the study of
    children and childhood as its focus, and, in a series of exemplary
    essays, represents the child's current centrality to a wide range of
    critical practices and methodologies. Despite burgeoning interest in
    the child, to date there has been no collection of essays that
    reflects current literary and cultural approaches to this rapidly
    expanding field. Our planned anthology redresses this absence by
    offering a compilation of essays that represents the wealth of new
    work in the field and exemplifies the diverse ways in which the child
    is newly understood in a wide range of critical practices.

    We seek original essays that are Americanist in focus and in some way
    address how the child operates as a conceptual or ideological force,
    at any historical point from the nation's inception to the present
    moment. Collectively the anthology will represent the methodological
    and theoretical diversity that characterizes child studies in an
    Americanist context. We, therefore, envision a collection that not
    only cuts across centuries but also represents diverse critical
    approaches to the topic.

    Send email inquiries to: clevande@rice.edu or singley@crab.rutgers.edu

    Please submit by May 15, 2001 an essay title, abstract, and C.V. to:
    Prof. Caroline Levander
    Dept of English, MS 30
    Rice University
    6100 Main St
    Houston, TX 77005-1892

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