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Cormac McCarthy Area Call for Papers for 2003 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Assoc. Meeting
| Location: | New Mexico, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2002-12-08 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2002-10-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
131504 |
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Cormac McCarthy Area call for papers for the 24th annual meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be held February 12-15, 2003, at the Albuquerque Hilton Hotel. The Cormac McCarthy Area solicits paper proposals from professors, graduate students, scholars, citizens, and other aficionados of McCarthy's works of the South and the Border Southwest. Also welcome are proposals for presentations, discussions and panels organized around common themes or motifs in McCarthy's oeuvre. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
The encroachment of the federal government in The Orchard Keeper
Swine as harbingers of human death in Outer Dark
Violence and narcissism in Child of God
McAnally Flats as Suttree's Purgatory in Suttree
The role of canines in Blood Meridian
The knife wound as cicatrix in All the Pretty Horses
Billy's dreams of wolves in The Crossing
John Grady Cole's failure to mature in Cities of the Plain
The theme of death in The Stonemason
Homicide and execution in the Gardener's Son
And, of course, other topics are welcome
Application Process:
Please send an abstract of 150 words to the listed email address before 8 December 2002. With your abstract, please include your email address, your mail address, your university affiliation, the days you are able to present (Th, Fri, Sat--AM or PM), and a catchy title.
Hotel information:
Albuquerque Hilton Hotel
1901 University, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Telephone: 1.505.884.2500
fax: 1.918.243.5995
Reservations: 1.800.274.6835
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