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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