CFP: Telling Trauma: Discourse of War in the 20th Century (9/15/01; NEMLA, 4/12/02-4/13/02)

From: Rodier, Katharine (rodier@marshall.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 13:58:51 EDT

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    Call for Papers
    Special Session, NEMLA 2002
    April 12-13, Toronto, Canada

    Telling Trauma: Discourse of War in the 20th Century

            This panel will examine both men and women's responses to war and
    warfare in the twentieth century, a time period that changed the ways that
    war is perceived. It will investigate the question of the human capacity to
    "see" war -- whether from the point of view of soldiers, journalists,
    battlefront tourists, scientific observers, witnesses, or other more removed
    participants. The nature of "seeing" becomes important to any depiction of
    the experience of war, and to the hidden truths about war that such work may
    reveal. Ultimately, then, this panel intends to recover further the ways in
    which writers have tried to voice the trauma of modern war.

            Please submit 500-word abstracts by September 15, 2001, to:
            Katharine Rodier
            Associate Professor of English
            Marshall University
            400 Hal Greer Blvd.
            Huntington WV 25755-2646
            fax: (304) 696-2448
            e-mail: rodier@marshall.edu

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