America's Myths
Abstract/Proposals by November 15, 2001
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-17, 2002
Albuquerque Hilton Hotel
1901 University, NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
800.274.6835 or 505.884.2500
This area seeks papers and presentations treating the manifestation of
various American mythic patterns in popular and American culture in all its
forms.
Possible topics include
-- the machine in the garden (of Leo Marx)
-- the myth of El Dorado
-- the golden west
-- frontier myths
-- the city upon a hill (of John Winthrop)
-- plantation ideals
-- the self-made man
-- American as utopia/eden
-- the American Adam
Send proposals of 250-500 words by November 15, 2001 to:
Marc Oxoby
University of Nevada-Reno
455 Poplar St.
Reno, NV. 89512
(775)786-5068
Oxoby@aol.com
e-mail submissions encouraged
For general information and online registration, go to the SW/TEXAS PCA/ACA
Website:
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca/
===============================================
From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
CFP@english.upenn.edu
Full Information at
http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu
===============================================
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Oct 16 2003 - 19:35:23 EDT