Call for Papers—Historical Novel--History and the Future
Central New York Conference on Language and Literature
The conference is scheduled this year from October 29 October 31, which
is a Friday--Sunday.
After last year’s very successful panel on the historical novel, we look forward to another interesting and enlightening panel at The Central New York Language and Literature conference at SUNY Cortland in Cortland, New York.
This year the conference is focused the future. While we are not limited to the theme in our papers, here are three very broad questions we could consider.
How might the historical novel intersect with our formulation of the future?
What might the relationship of the historical novel be in nation building?
How do representations of the past in fiction serve to broaden awareness of history and hence perhaps influence the way the future is shaped?
It seems to me that these questions ask us to consider some of the essential questions about the genre itself.
Historiocity. Accuracy. Story. Can one be privileged over another?
Are overtly political novels ever successful as literature?
You are welcome to write about canonical and non-canonical texts, translations, and historical/speculative fiction and historical/mysteries.
Proposals of 250 words are due by 15 July 2004.
holtfort@oswego.edu
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