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CFP: Essays for “Personal Effects: Essays on Memory, Culture, and Women in the Work of Louise DeSalvo”
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-06-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-04-04 |
| Announcement ID: |
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Essays are being solicited for a collection tentatively entitled “Personal Effects: Essays on Memory, Culture, and Women in the Work of Louise DeSalvo,” edited by Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta. The book aims to provide a commentary on issues of memory, culture, and women at the turn of this century, specifically as they have been examined by this important author and cultural critic: memory work and its various facets and articulations serve as focal point.
Essays will examine different aspects of DeSalvo’s work as a Woolf biographer, a trauma scholar, a feminist writer, a memoirist and essayist, a teacher of memoir, and a key figure in Italian American literature. We are also interested in other aspects of her work, for example, her little-known novel Casting off. Individual essays may focus on any of her works or particular themes (ethnicity, class, race, trauma, geography, environment, adultery, food, etc.); or they can be comparative and include a discussion of other authors—Italian American or from other backgrounds). We welcome also pedagogical essays; in fact, we anticipate a pedagogical section that will include both pedagogical discussions of DeSalvo’s texts and essays on the influence of DeSalvo on one’s writing and/or teaching experience. We already have a publisher interested in our book project and would like to invite contributions in the form of essays.
250-500 abstracts are due by June 1, 2010. Please also submit a bio (100-150 words) Finished essays (suggested length 5,000-7,500 words, including notes and bibliography. MLA style is required) are due by December 1, 2010. Early inquiries on possible topics are encouraged.
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Nancy Caronia
ncaronia@mail.uri.edu
caronia8461@gmail.com
Department of English
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, NY 02881
Edvige Giunta
egiunta@njcu.edu
egiunta@optonline.net
Department of English
New Jersey City University
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Email: ncaronia@mail.uri.edu
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