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

"Postmemory and Literature"
Comparative Literature Session at the Midwest Modern Language
Association Convention Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 10-13, 2005

This panel investigates the extent to which literature can be seen as a
"working through" of postmemory. What is postmemory? How does it work?
What is its relation to the object of memory? How does its "post"
function? Panelists will investigate these questions on literary ground,
and consider how the generic conventions of literary form are troubled
by the postmemorial.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, along with a 50 word
description to Taryn L. Okuma (tlokuma_at_wisc.edu). Email submissions
preferred.

Presenters must be members of MMLA by June 1, 2005.
See also the MMLA website: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/

Taryn L. Okuma
English Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706

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