Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference
September 24-27, 2003
Fort Worth, TX
Deadline for Proposals: October 1, 2002
Re-Creating Lives:
The Role, Relevance, and Challenge of Women's Biographies in Literary History
Biography continues to play a significant role in the production of an
author's literary reception and reputation. However, women writers often
seem to fall from history, leaving few traces for the literary historian
aside from the texts that they wrote. How does the importance of biography
in literary history tend to shape critical interpretations of texts by
women authors? Does the literary significance of women writers suffer
without blockbuster biographies that chronicle their lives? How does one
accurately re-interpret and re-create an author's life when there is often
so little information? What are some untapped sources for researching
women's lives? What are the roles and relevance of biography in critical
interpretation of a literary text? What "prominent" women writers lack
biographies and why? Can a writer become "prominent" without a biography?
Papers for this panel may explore these questions and other challenges
associated with biography and the woman writer by looking at these issues
from a broad lens or through cases of specific women writers.
Please send one-page abstracts to Denise Kohn, Department of English,
Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC, 27401-1875, kohnd@gborocollege.edu.
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