Call for Papers
WESTERN AMERICAN MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Edited collection
We invite submissions of critical and scholarly articles on memoir, self-representation,
and the West for a book-length collection under contract with the University
of Utah Press.
Our overall purpose for this collection is to provide a sustained and detailed
examination of the relationships between self-representation and the North
American West. Critical study of autobiography has grown tremendously during
the past 30 years, but little of this work has connected autobiographical
practices to western place. Recent conference panels have suggested that
memoir is rapidly becoming central to our discussions of western American
literary and cultural traditions. We would like to address this scholarly
interest with essays that consider questions such as these:
--What is "western" about western autobiography and memoir?
--What particular issues of place, class, gender, and ethnicity arise in
western autobiography and memoir?
--How are innovations like collaborative autobiography, cross-cultural autobiography,
and as-told-to autobiography marked by western place and history?
--How do autobiographies and memoirs written in or about the North American
West highlight issues of space and place: immigration, emigration, exile,
travel, work, commodification, and urbanization?
--How are relationships between human and non-human nature inscribed?
--What are some of the challenges to self-representation in the West?
While we are primarily inviting essays on self-life-writing, we are pleased
to consider manuscripts that discuss how self-representation occurs across
genres in film and other visual arts.
Before April 15, 2002, please send to Gioia Woods a short description (about
250 words) of the essay you would like to contribute to this collection.
These proposals may be emailed, but no attachments, please.
Completed essays (20-25 pages) will be due August 1, 2002.
Gioia Woods (Gioia.Woods@nau.edu)
Humanities, Arts, and Religion
Box 6031
University of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
Kathleen Boardman (kab@unr.edu)
Department of English (098)
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557-0031
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