CFP: Defining American Travel Writing (1/15/05; ALA, 5/26/05-5/29/05)

Call for Papers: “A Room of Its Own: Defining American Travel Writing?” The
Society for American Travel Writing. American Literature Association Annual
Conference, 26-29 May 2005, Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA.

The Society for American Travel Writing, a member society of the American
Literature Association, issues a call for papers for a session at the ALS
2005 conference in Boston, MA. Entitled “A Room of Its Own: Defining
American Travel Writing?” the session will explore the following question:

As a subset of travel writing – a genre seemingly without boundaries – is
there a way to identify a generically American travel writing? In short,
are there historical, economic, political, and/or stylistic features that
make American travel writing unique, or at least identifiable, among the
larger literature of travel writing? The Society for American Travel
Writing invites papers that pursue this question in a variety of ways.
Approaches may include (but are not limited to):

· Generic definitions of "American" travel writing.
· Comparative analyses of "American" travel writing and travel writing by
authors from "other" cultures.
· Examinations of a single author or single work.
· Theoretical discussions of "American" literary consciousness and travel.

Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Abstracts of no more than two pages
may be submitted by 15 January 2005. Abstracts should be delivered by mail,
or, preferably, by email, to Dr. Valerie Smith, Department of English,
Quinnipiac University, CLA-IC, 237 Mt. Carmel Ave., Hamden, CT, 06518, or
<Valerie.Smith_at_quinnipiac.edu>; or to Dr. Russ Pottle, Department of
Literature, Saint Joseph Seminary College, Saint Benedict, LA, 70457, or
<acdean @sjasc.edu>.

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