Call for Papers: Mystery and Detective Fiction Area--
Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference; Honolulu, HI<p>
May 25-27, 2007<p>
Chaminade University of Honolulu<p>

We invite panel and individual paper proposals for the Mystery/Detective Fiction Area of the inaugural Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference. Although we encourage attention to the conference theme “Work and Play,” all proposals will be considered.<p> Possible topics include:<p>

*Representations of Hawai‘i and Oceania in mystery fiction, film, and/or television.<p>

*Images of labor and leisure in mystery/detective fiction<p>

*“Arresting” or “licensing” textual play in the detective story
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*Crime and Detection Fiction of Las Vegas (“the ninth Hawaiian Island”)<p>
*Fictions of Forensic Science<p>

For further information, please review the OPCA Conference Home-Page:<p>
http://acad.chaminade.edu/dept/humanities/pcc/<p>

Abstracts/Proposals due Feb. 28, 2007.<p>
Send 150-200 word abstracts to Stan Orr (sorr@hawaii.edu). Please email submissions; attach abstracts as Word documents or paste directly into the body of the email.<p>

Humanities Division

University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu
(808)454-4703
Email: sorr@hawaii.edu
Visit the website at http://
acad.chaminade.edu/dept/humanities/pcc/