CFP: Southern Women Writers (7/1/03; 10/16/03-10/18/03)

Call for Papers

Fifth Biennial Southern Women Writers Conference

Berry College, Rome, GA

October 16-18, 2003

Self-Locations/Dislocations

Featured speakers to include:

            Dorothy Allison Faye Gibbons Janisse Ray

            Marilou Awiakta Lorraine Lopez Melanie Sumner

Kelly Cherry Tayari Jones Helen Taylor

Rosemary Daniell Karen McElmurray Natasha Tretheway Frances Smith Foster Sandra Meek C. D. Wright

                                                  Surprise Musical Artist!

Since its inception in 1996, the Southern Women Writers Conference has been devoted to showcasing the works of well-known and emerging southern women writers, expanding the literary canon, and developing critical and theoretical understandings of the tradition of southern women’s writing.

The theme for the 2003 conference is “Self-Locations/Dislocations.” Through their writings, southern women past and present have celebrated, questioned, and/or challenged outright the social practices and cultural values tied to the particularities of specific geographical locales and historical moments. For many southern women, then, writing has been and remains a means of self-location, not simply in terms of geography but in multiple intersections of gender. race, ethnicity, and sexuality as well as in community, history, ecology, etc.; for others, writing may also be a means of responding to displacement and diaspora. We invite critical submissions that explore the full range of approaches to self-location and dislocation used by women in and of the South, including but not limited to:

* canonical and non-canonical works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and drama
* non-discursive works (film, photography, performance art, etc.)
* works by non-native southerners set in the region
* works by native southerners set outside the traditional boundaries of the South
* works set in the contemporary urban or suburban South
* works set in distinctive sub-regions of the South (Appalachia, Sea Islands, Acadiana, etc.)
* works by women who have been marginalized by race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, etc.

We especially encourage theoretical and disciplinary approaches that seek to remap the conventional boundaries and contours of the southern cultural landscape.

Critical Submissions: Please send 300-word abstracts or completed papers that can be read aloud in twenty minutes. If submitting a proposal for a panel, please include the names of participants and abstracts for individual papers.

All submissions are due no later than July 1, 2003 and may be sent via e-mail as attachments in MS Word format to swwc_at_berry.edu or by regular mail to:

Southern Women Writers Conference; Berry College; Box 490350; Mt. Berry, GA 30149.

Requests for multi-media equipment should accompany submissions.

For more information call (706) 368-5625 or visit the conference website at: http://www.berry.edu/academics/humanities/english/swwc2003/

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