CALL FOR PAPERS: Please circulate/distribute.
Northeast Modern Language Association
Toronto, Canada
April 12-13, 2002
June 2000 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the sudden beginning of the
Korean War, a three-year experience of no little magnitude and significance
that still occupies a problematic place within the American cultural memory.
Though widely perceived as "forgotten," the war is neither entirely
forgotten nor easily remembered. There does exist a relatively large and
varied body of primary sources that in uneven quality reflect, remember, and
in some cases memorialize the American experience during that three-year
period. These sources include novels, short stories, personal narratives,
some poetry, and even a small number of plays. What does not exist is
enough critical exploration of these primary artifacts.
This panel of three or four presentations will attempt to document and
comment upon at least some aspects or examples of the American literary
response to the Korean War--and perhaps account as well for the nature and
shape of that response in comparison with similar cultural responses to
World War II and Vietnam, the "good" and "bad" wars that respectively
preceded and followed the "forgotten" war in Korea.
Please submit an abstract (1-2 pages/250-500 words) by September 15, 2001.
Conference information is available at the following website:
http://www.nova.edu/~stoddart/.
Accepted panelists must be NEMLA members by March 1, 2002.
James R. Kerin, Jr.
Department of English
United States Military Academy
West Point, NY 10996
e-mail: cj0257@usma.edu
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