CFP: Vietnam War Literature/Film (Hawaii) (8/15/05; 11/8/05-11/10/05)

The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
        In commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the
American war in Viet Nam, potential contributors are invited to submit
papers, abstracts, and proposals for a conference to be held in Honolulu
during Veterans Day week 2005 (November 7-10) that will include scholarly
panels, readings by American and Vietnamese authors, film showings, and
featured presentations by Philip Beidler, Andrew Lam, Wayne Karlin, and
Tim O'Brien. Panel discussions will be held at the Imin Conference Center
on the campus of the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, with readings, films,
and other public events either on-campus or at suitable venues elsewhere
on Oahu. Final versions of suitable panel papers may be submitted for a
volume of essays assessing the value and significance of literary and
related cultural productions that were generated by the war and that
continue to be worth the attention of literary artists, critics, and
scholars as well as the public more generally.
Potential conference contributors should address themselves to one or more
of the following general questions:

* What are the most significant and enduring literary works and writers
  (fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction prose) to emerge from the Vietnam
   conflict?
* What important distinctions can be made between significant American (or
  other Western) and Vietnamese literary representations of the war in
  Viet Nam?
* How have such works influenced literature that is not tied to the war
  itself?
  What part do they play within or how have they influenced literary
  history/criticism/theory?
* If there is a canon of Vietnam War literature, what do such works
  neglect?
  What works outside such a canon need to be more fully considered?
* Is Vietnam likely to be a subject of present or future literary
  production? In what ways?
* What was the impact of Vietnam upon American (or other) filmmakers?
  What are the most significant and enduring works?
* What was its impact upon other cultural productions? (television,
  music, art, photography, sculpture and architecture, clothing, popular culture more
  generally)

Papers in the following areas would be most welcome: American poetry,
American drama, American creative nonfiction, American fiction by writers
other than Tim O'Brien. Potential contributors are invited to contact
Mark Heberle, Acting Chair and the conference organizer, with proposals,
abstracts, outlines, papers or portions of papers by August 15 via letter,
e-mail, phone, or fax at any of the following:

Department of English heberle_at_hawaii.edu
University of Hawai'i at Manoa (808) 956-3088 (to Aug. 2), 956-3032
1733 Donaghho Road 956-7619 (departmental office)
Honolulu, HI 96822 956-3032 (departmental fax

Final papers/abstracts are due Oct. 1

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