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The Area of Cormac McCarthy's Literature of the Border Southwest, for 2002 Regional Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
| Location: | New Mexico, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2001-11-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2001-09-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
128475 |
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The are of Cormac McCarthy's Literature of the Border Southwest solicits paper proposals from professors, graduate students, folklorists, historians, and other aficionados of McCarthy's works of the Border Southwest for the 2002 Regional Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations, to be held February 13-17, 2002 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Albuquerque Hilton Hotel (1.505.884.2500). Also welcome are proposals for presentations, discussions and panels organizes around common themes in McCarthy's literature of the Border Southwest.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Violence in BLOOD MERIDIAN and the Border Trilogy
- The mythic place of the horse in the Border Trilogy
- The woman's role in The Border Trilogy
- Animal characterization in BLOOD MERIDIAN and the Border Trilogy
- Geography in McCarthy's literature of the Border Southwest
- Regionalism and provincialism in McCarthy's literature of the Border Southwest
- Intertextuality between McCarthy's earlier texts and McCarthy's texts of the Border Southwest
- Intertextuality between BLOOD MERIDIAN and Samuel E. Chamberlain's MY CONFESSION
- El Paso and Juárez as oppositional, or symbiotic, dyad
- Honor and dishonor in the Border Trilogy.
Please send a 150 word abstract to me by 15 November 2001.
For Hotel and flight information, please visit our everevolving web site below.
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Wallis Sanborn
3005 30th St.,
Lubbock, Texas 79410-3101
ph:806.791.0756
or,
Wallis Sanborn
Texas Tech University, Dept. of English
Mailstop 3091
Lubbock, TX 79409
ph: 806.742.2501 fax: 806.742.0989
Email: wsanborn@nts-online.net
Visit the website at http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca/
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