CFP: Food and Literature (3/24/01; MLA '01)

From: Lynn Marie Houston (lynnhouston@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 02:09:27 EST

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    For a special session proposal, MLA 2001 (12/27-12/30/01 in New =
    Orleans): "Food, Literature, and Culture"

    Presentations should attempt to define what food studies means for =
    literary and cultural studies; they might address concerns like the =
    following:

    -- the importance of food in narrative and culture for issues of memory, =
    identity, globalisation, postcoloniality and the "practice of everyday =
    life"

    -- how recipes function narratologically

    -- how food images in texts work as ways of "writing the body" or as =
    narrative strategies of resistance and empowerment

    -- the ability to critique the category of "the national" offered by =
    connections between food and ideology

    Any literature or language considered. Interdisciplinary approaches are =
    particularly encouraged. Presenters MUST be members of MLA by April 1st. =

    Please send abstract and cv by 3/24/01 to Lynn Houston at =
    lynnhouston@yahoo.com or 2025 S. Forest Ave. #4, Tempe, Arizona 85282. =
    For more information visit http://www.lynnhouston.com/mlafood&lit.htm

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