CALL FOR PAPERS
For a panel to be proposed for the third annual meeting of the Modernist
Studies Association, October 12-15, 2001, Rice University, Houston, TX.
MODERNIST NOSTALGIA
This panel examines the vexed issue of nostalgia in literary modernism. As a
structure, nostalgia names a way of thinking that begins with the idea of
return, from the Greek "nostos": "the return home." As Lynne Huffer reminds
us, this movement is not automatically conservative, but may take many forms.
For example, feminist theory has shown how nostalgic structures work to
perpetuate patriarchal oppression. Conversely, African American studies has
pointed to a nostalgic longing for "mother Africa" as a productive means of
resisting white racist culture. Nostalgia can be harnessed for either
oppressive or liberatory aims.
This panel invites papers that examine the processes and aims of nostalgic
thinking. How are acts of nostalgic thinking in modernist texts involved in
questions of narrative and culture? How do nostalgic structures participate
in the construction of gender, race, sexuality, and postcolonial subjectivity?
Especially welcome are papers that address the positive effects of nostalgia.
Please send 250-word abstracts and vitae by March 15 to:
Tammy Clewell
Department of English
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44240
Email submissions preferred:
tclewell@kent.edu
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