CFP: Irish Literature: Homelessness and Identity (4/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

CFP: Irish Literature: Homelessness and Identity (4/15/05; MMLA,
11/10/05-11/13/05)

Proposals or Papers are invited on the topic of "Homelessness and Identity
in Irish Literature" for the Irish Studies panel of the Midwest Modern
Language Association convention, to be held November 10-13, 2005 in
Milwaukee, WI.

Tom Murphy's The Wake (1998) intriguingly refers to the post-partition
Protestant Irish mindset as "homelessness." How might the concept of literal
or metaphorical homelessness be utilized to interrogate depictions of
minority or disenfranchised cultural, political, or sexual identities in
Irish literature? Suggested topics and authors might include: J. M. Synge,
Samuel Beckett, Emma Donoghue, Brian Friel, James Joyce and Irish identity,
the Irish diaspora, Irish Travelers, the partition of Ireland, the
Ascendancy, the reception of recent immigrants to "Celtic Tiger" Ireland,
gay rights and queer literature in Ireland, Irish minority identity, gender
inequality, and Northern Irish identities.

Email proposals of 500 words or complete papers suitable for a 20 minute
presentation by April 15, 2005 to:

mary.2.burke_at_uconn.edu

Mary Burke, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English

Dept. of English - U 4025

215 Glenbrook Rd.

University of Connecticut

Storrs

CT 06269-4025

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