Children's Literature (SAMLA November 2004) extended deadline
Extended deadline for
MINDING THE GAPS
The 2004 SAMLA Children’s Literature Discussion Circle, meeting at the Hotel
Roanoke and Convention Center, Roanoke, Virginia, November 12-14, invites
essays that explore what’s missing from contemporary children’s literature.
Herbert Kohl’s Should We Burn Barbar? suggests that one would be hard
pressed to find a children’s work featuring a community working together for
a greater good rather than focusing on an individual, while Alison Lurie
writes in Don’t Tell the Grown-ups: The Subversive Power of Children’s
Literature that the three topics missing from traditional children’s works
are sex, death, and money.
Are contemporary invisibilities the same as those from earlier times? If
not, what is now unseen or unacknowledged and why? Are these gaps complicit
in some cultural work or are they subversive, drawing attention to what’s
not there? As critics and educators, should such gaps make us nervous?
What do they reveal to us about the nature of contemporary childhood and its
reflection in literature?
Please send a 500-word abstract and a representative bibliography by May
1, 2004 to the address below.
Prof. Rhonda Brock-Servais
Department of English and Modern Languages
Longwood University
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Please contact me with any questions.
rbservai@longwood.edu
(434) 395-2695
Dr. Rhonda Brock-Servais
Dept. of English and Modern Languages
Longwood University
I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is: I only know that
people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate
me from a doormat"
-- Rebecca West
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