2011 CFP: Canadian
See also under:
French and Francophone: “Identité nationale dans le roman francophone contemporain”; “Lectures postcoloniales de la Grande Guerre dans la littérature francophone du”; “Melting-Pots and Mosaics: Paris and Montréal in Francophone Literature”
Transnational Literatures: “Canada and the African Diasporic Literary Imaginary”
- Gender and Labor in Contemporary French-Canadian Literature
- This panel seeks to analyze representations of work performed by men and women in French-Canadian literature and to examine the ways in which the women’s movement, the Quiet Revolution, NAFTA, and globalization impact the workforce for both sexes. Please send one-page proposals including contact information and a brief CV to Edith Vandervoort (dobyabear@earthlink.net). Papers may be presented in French or English.
- Personal and Social Myth-making in the Work of Margaret Atwood
- A central concern of Margaret Atwood’s work has been myth-making. She has said the Edible Woman and Surfacing are about characters with unworkable mythologies. The Handmaid’s Tale has been read as exploring potential consequences inherent in the beliefs(or mythologies) of religious conservatives. Her most recent work The Year of the Flood features a cult-like group. This panel seeks papers that examine Atwood’s evolving vision of the role of mythologies in our lives. Mary Lannon <mary.lannon@ncc.edu>
- Women Writers and the Historical Novel in Canada
- This panel seeks to strengthen our understanding of women writers and the historical novel in Canada. Proposals are invited that approach the topic from a variety of perspectives. Proposals that employ comparative, feminist, historicist, and/or materialist methodologies are welcome, as are those that focus on the reception of individual works or writers in specific historical, regional, or cultural contexts. Please send 200-250 word proposals to Andrea Cabajsky at andrea.cabajsky@umoncton.ca.
