--Please note additional e-mail address.
>Race and 19th-Century Speculative Fiction, a panel at the 2003 NEMLA
>Convention (March 6 - 9, 2003).
>See the complete call for papers for the convention at http://www.nemla.org
>
> If, as W. E. B. DuBois wrote in 1903, "the problem of the Twentieth
>Century is the problem of the color-line," obviously people living in the
>nineteenth century were already well-aware of the problem and were thinking
>forward to its future manifestations. They were also, from all sides of
>the political spectrum, proposing various "solutions" to it. In this
>discussion, speculative fiction--that is, works which speculate on possible
>futures, "lost" or alternate worlds and social make-ups, etc., including,
>among others, early science fiction and utopian writing--took a prominent
>place. Of course, utopian fiction from the period has long been recognized
>for its political nature, especially as related to issues of gender and the
>feminist movements of the nineteenth century. However, utopian and other
>speculative works were also being used to discuss issues of race, and
>offered a wide range of thought on the subject.
>
> This panel aims to explore the various constructions of race in this
>important (and widely popular) nineteenth-century genre as a means of
>adding to our understanding of this significant period in the "history" of
>race. Papers can address works from either side of the Atlantic.
>
> Please send 250-500 word proposals by Sept. 15th to:
> Jason Haslam, jhaslam@wlu.ca *and/or jason.haslam@sympatico.ca*
> (e-mail preferred);
> or send paper copies to the address below.
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Dr. Jason Haslam
Dept. of English and Film Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3C5
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~jwhaslam/
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