CALL FOR PAPERS
Central New York Conference on Languages and Literatures
Cortland, New York
October 28-30, 2001
Panel Title: Autobiography
Panel Chair: Kathryn L. Kleypas
Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2001
In his book INVENTING IRELAND, Declan Kiberd observes that
"...nation-building can be achieved by the simple expedient
of writing one's autobiography: and autobiography in Ireland
becomes, in effect, the autobiography of Ireland. To read
the autobiographies of Yeats, George Moore or Frank
O'Connor...is to be constantly impressed and unnerved by the
casual ease with which they substitute themselves as a
shorthand for their country, writing an implicit and covert
constitution for their republics in images of their very
creation."
I would like to compile a panel which examines autobiography
as nation-building. I am interested in submissions from all
national traditions and eras. The definition of "nation" is
very open.
Please submit short abstracts in the body of the e-mail
message before July 15 to kleypas@usc.edu.
Kathryn L. Kleypas
Advanced Writing Program
University of Southern California
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