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From the 1920s to the early 1960s, what were feminist women writing about when the country had presumably bigger fish to fry than the now-defunct “Woman question”? We are seeking papers on authors (preferably "non-canonical") who dared to address gender issues between the putative waves of feminism. Specifically, how did the work—either written or set during this time—offer a literary and/or socio-historical perspective on gender when our national agenda was allegedly gender-less; e.g., immigration, the Great Depression, Jim Crow, WWII, internment camps, the Red Scare, nuclear warfare, the nuclear family, and an increasingly idealized and commercialized “American way of life.”
For this proposed panel, we seek papers that expand the critical discourse on mid-century American literature to include myriad forms of life writing by women, including autobiography, memoir, essay, fiction, drama, or poetry. Please send a 350-word abstract (with brief title), an abridged CV, and your AV needs to Maureen Kentoff at mkentoff@gwu.edu by Monday, January 10, 2011.
See ALA site for more conference details:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/american_literature_assoc_2011.html
See ALA site for more conference details:
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/american_literature_assoc_2011.html
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