CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS
Chicana and Chicano Culture: Literature, Film, Theory
The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations=20
will hold their 24th annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February=20=
13 through 17, 2003. The organizations have met there the last several=20=
years, and members wanted to return because of the great location, the=20=
fine hotel, food, sights, and museums.
Panels and individual papers on all aspects of Chicana and Chicano=20
culture are encouraged for our 2003 meeting. The Chicana/o Culture area=20=
tends to be both multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary, and panels=20
and individual papers may explore any issues relevant to Chicana/o=20
cultural studies.
Presentations might examine themes relevant to Chicana/o culture and=20
politics including but not limited to =93resistance and affirmation=94;=20=
nationalism and ethnic separatism; borders, frontiers, and=20
territorialization; labor unions and social collectivity; machismo,=20
feminidad, feminisms, and gender construction; immigration, internal=20
colonialism, and indigenismo; religion and spirituality; mainstream=20
depictions and ethnic stereotyping; La Raza C=F3smica and cultural=20
syncretism. Topics might traverse distinctions within cultural=20
expressions and specific genres=97corridos, mitos, folklore, poetry,=20
fiction, drama, film, television. Presentations might cover theoretical=20=
and/or creative and/or historical works by individual authors such as=20
Jos=E9 Vasconcelos, Rudy Acu=F1a, Luis Valdez, George I. S=E1nchez, =
Gloria=20
Anzald=FAa, Ana Castillo, Cherr=EDe Moraga, and others.
Proposals that address any aspect of Chicana/o culture are welcome.
PLEASE SEND SUBMISSIONS BY DECEMBER 10th.
Please send inquiries or 100- to 150-word proposals to:
Scott Baugh
English Department, MS 3091
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091
fax: 806.742.0989
email: sbaugh@ttu.edu
Also, you may visit the associations=92 website for more information:
www.swtexaspca.org
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