Call For Papers: Deadline September 15, 2001
NEMLA Conference, April 12-13
Toronto, Canada
Session Title: Affective Bonds: Sympathy and Power in Early American
Community Formation
This session invites papers that address the ways in which a variety of
early American communities--be they religious, ethnic, racial, tribal,
or national--posited the narration or performance of particular
affective states as the crucial criteria for membership. Topics might
include missionary tracts, Puritan conversion narratives, Republican
oratory and social theory, sentimental novels, African-American
religion, and indigenous performances of community including Iroquois
Condolence Councils. Papers that address the tensions between the
egalitarian and hierarchical aspects of such communities, or that
articulate the relations among affective communities across national and
racial boundaries, are particularly welcome. Early America is defined
broadly to include the English colonies, New France, Louisiana, Spanish
Florida and the West Indies.
Please send proposals to:
Chris Iannini
English Department
City University of New York
Graduate School and University Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
Or by email:
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