**NEW DEADLINE: JULY 13, 2001**
CALL FOR PAPERS
Central New York Conference on Language and Literature
Contemporary American Literature
"Contemporary Crusades -- the Sacred and the Secular"
Abstracts and conference-length papers are invited for presentation
at the annual Central New York Conference on Language and
Literature to be held at Cortland College of the State University of
New York, October 28-30, 2001.
With the recent election of George W. Bush and his prompt and
highly-publicized creation of a White House Office of Faith-Based
and Community Initiatives, religion is once again finding itself a
(potentially unwilling) partisan in increasingly high-visibility battles
with (among others) science, politics, and popular culture.
From the reactionary Atlantean cult novels of the 1960s and early
1970s to the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, to E.L. Doctrow's
most recent book, City of God, contemporary authors have found the
sometimes battling and sometimes embattled forces of religion to be
fertile and productive ways to look at contemporary culture.
In that light, this panel welcomes papers that explore any of the myriad
ways in which contemporary American texts have depicted, challenged,
defended, or otherwise engaged in conflicts involving religion.
Please submit 500-word abstracts, including the paper title, and the name,
e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, and institutional
affiliation of the participant. Audio-visual requirements should also
be included. Inquiries are welcome. Submission by e-mail is preferred.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in presentation length.
E-mail proposals must be received by July 13:
Richard Parent
rip5@pitt.edu
Snail-mail submissions must be postmarked by July 10 :
Richard Parent
English Department - University of Pittsburgh
526 Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6639
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