I would like to propose a panel on Reclaiming the Southern Other for the
2002 SSSL conference in Lafayette, LA. Please send abstracts or completed
papers addressing the concepts described below to Emily Wright
(ewright@berry.edu) by Oct. 1, 2001 (for submission to conference
organizers by Oct. 15).
Recent studies addressing the formation of the southern literary canon
have argued that it was constructed according to Agrarian/New Critical
principles; that these principles operated to marginalize texts by African
Americans, women, and the rural poor; and that important "other voices"
were thereby erased from the "master narrative" of southern literature.
This panel will extend the recent research into canon formation and
southern identity by examining texts excluded from the southern literary
canon. Papers should address such questions as the following:
--Why were specific texts excluded from the canon? By whom? How?
--Which neglected texts should be integrated into the canon at this
point, and why? How should the canon be revised?
All papers examining the southern literary canon and the politics of
exclusion from it will be welcome.
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