CFP: War and Environment (12/1/02; ASLE 6/3/03-6/7/03)
Panel proposal for the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the
Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE): Boston University, June 3-7, 2003.
Deadline: December 15, 2002.
This panel will explore how the literature of war engages with
environmental discourse. As this panel will conceive of war and
environment in broad terms, papers may consider wars of any period and
environments of any region, though papers focusing on texts and events of
the past century will be especially relevant to this panel's concerns.
Possible topics include the employment of pastoral tropes in war
literature, the body as a site of mediation between war and environment,
and the mutual construction of nature and memory at war monument sites.
Among the questions this panel seeks to consider: In what ways do writers
employ natural discourses as a means of depicting war experience? Is there
an historical shift in the use of these discourses over the past century?
To what extent do depictions of war disrupt and to what extent do they
reinforce existing cultural understandings of nature?
More information about the conference is available at: www.asle.umn.edu
Send 1-2 page abstracts and cv by Dec 15; email submissions preferred.
Send to:
William Kupinse (william-kupinse@utulsa.edu)
Department of English
The University of Tulsa
600 South College Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74104-3189
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