Proposed Panel: Women’s “Private” Writing and the
American Civil War
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)
Conference
September 24-27, 2003
Fort Worth, TX
SSAWW website: http://www.unl.edu/legacy/SSAWW1.html
Proposals and papers are sought for a panel on
women’s “private” writing and the American Civil War.
Women’s Civil War fiction has recently received some
long overdue attention from critics such as Elizabeth
Young and Kathleen Diffley. Yet women’s private
writings—diaries, letters, family memoirs—remain
marginalized, usually relegated to historians of the
Civil War. What happens when such private writing is
taken as the subject of literary study? How do women
writers use these texts to comment on and participate
in the Civil War? How does the Civil War affect the
process of self-construction in such texts? How are
such texts marked by class, race, and geographical
location? Is such writing really private after all?
Papers focused on individual authors are welcome, as
are broader discussions of the issues involved in
studying women’s private writing about the Civil War.
Please contact the session organizer with your ideas by
email or postal mail no later than November 15, 2002.
Direct all inquiries, abstracts, or full papers to:
Jennifer Putzi
Department of English
124 Tucker Hall
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187
jlputz@wm.edu
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