Staging the American Family: (Re)Conceiving the American Dream
This special session proposed for the 2003 PAMLA Conference to be held
at Scripps College, Claremont, CA, November 7-9 will be dedicated to
examining the many depictions of the family within American theater
during the last century-families succumbing to entropy (O'Neill,
Shepard, Albee) or overcome by fragmentation (Williams, Miller) often
times in direct (and deliberate) contrast to the idealized conception of
the family in popular consciousness well into the 1980s.
Of particular interest would be the dramatic critiquing, satirizing, and
revising of the mythology of the nuclear family post WWII, as that
idealized family confronted the changing attitudes involved in the
Counterculture Movement, feminism, race-consciousness, the AIDS crisis
and sexuality. But submissions dealing with any aspect of the American
family (from a variety of perspectives that would include Marxism,
gender studies, cultural studies, etc.) in American theater during the
20th century are welcome. You must be a member of PAMLA by the time of
the conference to be eligible.
Please second 500 word proposals along with 50 word abstracts (included
in the body of the email) to jcwestgate@ucdavis.edu, or send hard copies
of abstracts to J. Chris Westgate, Department of English, University of
California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616 (along with contact
information) by March 15, 2003.
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