Call for papers for the Conference of the Society for the Study of
American Women Writers, 24-27 September 2003, Fort Worth, Texas.
Panel: Poetic God-Talk: American Women's Writing and/as Theology
This session will focus on American women's religious writing. Its aim
will be to uncover the structured character of these writings, as does
Mary Pellauer in her reading of the late nineteenth-century suffragists.
Pellauer argues that while these American women did not form fully
articulated and well-rounded theological systems, the coherence of their
religious thoughts and the internal relationships between these ideas
deserves the name theology. From Anne Bradstreet to Toni Morrison,
American women have been articulating their faith and spirituality in
creative writing, and this work has dovetailed with the theological issues
and reforms of their time and place. Papers in the panel will explore how
theological expressions of creative writers intersect and/or illuminate
(or are illuminated by) the work of feminist/womanist/liberation
theologians.
Papers may draw on any number of American women writers, from any period.
Application of various theologies, theories of subjectivity, embodiment,
autobiography, écriture feminine, historicity, and so on are all welcome.
Send proposals of 250-500 words by attachment or in text to
8rh@qlink.queensu.ca
Roxanne Harde
Department of English
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6
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