Modernist Authenticities
Panel Proposal
MSA 4th Annual Conference
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Oct. 31-Nov.11 2002)
Deadline for Paper Proposals: April 15
I am looking for papers that will address the issue of authenticity in
modernism-both in modernists texts and in modernist discourse about
culture, society, identity, etc. Some possible questions papers might
consider include: What constitutes modern authenticity? How is it
constructed and/or deployed? What role does the authentic play in
identity formation, character creation, etc. or in texts and artworks
more generally? How does the concept of the authentic function in
relation to the past? How does authenticity relate to other cultural
and artistic developments of modernism, including celebrity,
primitivism, book-of-the-month clubs, the Hollywood film industry? How
does it function in relation to class, race, gender? What
response/feeling does authenticity arouse-is it revered, a source of
anxiety, etc.? The goal of this panel is to open a discussion on the
ways in which modernists think about and discuss authenticity and to
begin to assess its import for modernism for generally. Papers can
address specific texts or more theoretical aspects of the issue of
authenticity.
Send 250-500 word proposals and a brief CV to Suzanne del Gizzo via
email at sdelgi@tulane.edu.
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