Call for papers on "Jewish Women Writing of the 1990s and Beyond in
Great Britain and the United States", to be published in 2003 by
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Since the 1980s, and increasingly so during the 1990s, Jewish women
writers both in America and Great Britain have made their voices
heard. Especially in America they have started to emancipate
themselves from their male colleagues and to write themselves into the
literary mainstream. The Holocaust has become a topic discussed in
female American Jewish short fiction, a hitherto taboo topic which, as
David Brauner claims, has served to "break the silence" long held by
American female Jewish writers. Also in drama and poetry, female
Jewish writers are a presence no longer to be ignored. A similar
development took place in the UK, where in the 1990s, a new generation
of female Jewish dramatists have brought the Holocaust on the stage,
thus exploring the traumata of loss, rootlessness and guilt. British
Jewish novelists and poets have brought new perspectives to the issues
of gender, Jewish identity, and their position in British literature.
Additionally, remembering their family's past and their own identity
has been the task of a number of women in their autobiographical
writings, which flourished in the 1990s.
The book is meant to provide an overview over the state of affairs in
Jewish women writing in Britain and America at the brink of the third
Millennium, and we invite contributions on all aspects of the proposed
topic, including: gender, concepts of Jewish identity, self and other,
past and present, religious and non-religious Jewish life in America
and Great Britain, anti-Semitism, the Diaspora, the Holocaust,
attitudes towards Israel, attitudes towards other cultures and
religions, cross-national literary influences. The volume is going to
be structured according to the different genres: prose fiction,
autobiographical writing, drama and poetry.
Abstracts:
250 word abstracts are invited for 10-15 page papers on Jewish Women
Writing of the 1990s and beyond in Great Britain and the United
States.
We are especially interested in articles on the following writers: UK
Prose Fiction: Anita Brookner, Jenny Diski, Lucy Ellmann, Elaine
Feinstein, Eva Figes, Linda Grant, Myra Kaye, Elena Lappin, Ronit
Lentin, Deborah Levy, Cheryl Moskowitz, Zina Rohan, Bernice Rubens,
Lore Segal, et al.
Autobiographical Writing:
Lisa Appignanesi, Leila Berg, Linda Grant, Anne Karpf, Louise Kehoe,
Ronit Lentin, Rachel Lichtenstein, et al.
Theatre:
Julia Pascal, Deborah Levy, Diane Samuels, et al.
Poetry:
Ruth Fainlight, Elaine Feinstein, Deborah Levy, Jean Liddell-King,
Michelene Wandor, et al.
USA
Prose Fiction:
Pearl Abraham, Gloria Goldreich, Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman,
Carolivia Herron, Erica Jong, Judith Katz, Tova Mirvis, Leslea Newman,
Tillie Olsen, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Emily Prager,
Norma Rosen, Anne Roiphe, Faye Stollman Moskovitz, et al.
Theatre:
Hindi Brooks, Sarah Blacher Cohen, Marle Feld, Barbara Kahn, Barbara
Lebow, Lois Roisman, Wendy Wasserstein
Poetry:
Chana Bloch, Marcia Falk, Louise Glueck, Shirley Kaufmann, Maxine
Kumin, Denise Levertov, Alicia Ostriker, Linda Pastan, Adrienne Rich,
Julia Vinograd
We plan a conference in the winter semester 2002/03 where you are
invited to give and discuss your paper before the publication of the
volume.
Proposals/Abstracts are due by 1 August 2002.
Please reply to:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Reitz
Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz
FB 14, Anglistik
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
D-55099 Mainz
Tel: +49-(0)6131-3923495
Fax: +49-(0)6131-3920663
e-mail: reitz@fb14.uni-mainz.de
or:
Ulrike Hattemer
Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz
FB 14, Anglistik
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
D-55099 Mainz
Tel: +49-(0)6131-3925113
Fax: +49-(0)6131-3920663
e-mail: hattemer@fb14.uni-mainz.de
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Reitz
Ulrike Hattemer
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