CFP: Poststructuralism and 19th-century "American" Literatures (3/10/03; MLA '03)

Special Session Proposal: Call for Paper for 2003 Convention in San
Diego

Poststructuralism and 19th-century "American" Literatures: Between
History and Historicity

I'm interested in papers that read 19th-century literary and other texts
through broadly poststructuralist interpretations, particularly when they
illuminate some feature or logic of today's social, political, and
economic structures. Key words or concepts that I'd like to think about:
sovereignty, subject, community, citizenship, historicity, event,
modernity, historicism, periodization, "national literature," institution.
I'm particularly interested in approaches that try to reimagine the field
of nineteenth-century Americanist studies itself.

Please send a 2-3 page abstract by March 10 to Tim Deines
(deinesti_at_msu.edu).

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