CFP: Revisiting Dos Passos (4/1/03; 5/8/03-5/9/03)

The UCLA Department of English, in conjunction with the 8th Annual Marathon
Reading, presents:

Revisiting Dos Passos: USA and the American Culture of the 1920s and 1930s
May 8-9, 2003

John Dos Passos' wrote his USA trilogy during a period that he described as
a "moment of intense disintegration." His fragmentary account struggles to
capture and hold a deeply sensed democratic ideal in the face of an American
depression, increasingly disjointed sense of modernity, and a rising threat
of Continental Fascism. While other artists documented America through
photographs, oral histories, and journalistic accounts, Dos Passos strove to
portray contradictory aspects of America in prose.

In association with UCLA's Marathon Reading of Dos Passos' USA trilogy, the
English department is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on Dos Passos'
writing and 1920s and1930s politics, art, history, and Modernism. Papers on
Dos Passos, Reginald Marsh's illustrations of the 1946 USA trilogy edition,
and 1930s journalism, photography, politics, American culture, Marxism, and
Modernism are welcome.

Submissions should be no longer than twenty minutes. By April 1, please
submit a 250 word abstract to Alison Hills, either to UCLA's English
Department (Rolfe 2225, Box 951530, LA, CA 90095-1530) or via e-mail at
alisonhills_at_earthlink.net

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