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From View message header detail Tamara Harvey <tharvey2@gmu.edu>
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Subject CFP: Women and Early American, special issue of Legacy
Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Legacy
Women and Early America
Guest Editor: Tamara Harvey
In many ways, the study of women and the early Americas has never
been more robust. Work on women throughout the Americas, including
European, African, and native women, both free and enslaved, has
profited from decades of ground-breaking scholarly attention not only
to those whose names appeared on the title pages of books, but to
women whose texts were hidden in the works of others, stagnating in
untapped manuscript archives, or awaiting interpretive methodologies
that could address oral and material texts. And yet in the metaphors
of maps and routes that frequently dominate the emerging fields of
Atlantic, transnational, and hemispheric studies, women can seem to
be pushed to the margins, left to lounge in the cartouches of mappae
mundi or to stand duty as figureheads on the bows of ships. That is
to say, while their presence is acknowledged, the way that presence
might require these studies to be revised, rethought, and retheorized
remains to be fully engaged.
In their introduction to Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World
(1600-1800), Daniella Kostroun and Lisa Vollendorf suggest that
attention to women and gender may fruitfully "expand[ ] the rubric of
the Atlantic community into a more global community" (6). "Expanding
the rubrics" of transatlantic and hemispheric studies, of feminism
and the study of American women writers, of attentions to slavery,
racism, and uneven cross-cultural exchanges is the aim of this
special issue of Legacy focusing on women and early America. Of
particular interest are articles that explore how we conceive of the
connections and dissonances among various approaches to early
American women and other fields, including transatlantic,
hemispheric, and economic studies, recent discussions of women and
the archives, and approaches to American women writers and feminism
more broadly conceived, while expanding and bringing nuance to our
understanding of early American women in ways that attend to a range
of differences and power disparities. In short, how does attention
to women and gender revise and sharpen the shifting paradigms shaping
our understanding of the Americas before 1820?
Topics might include discussions of women and gender with respect to
the following, any of which may be explored with respect to Native
Indian, African, and European women, both free and enslaved:
* Colonization and empire
* Economic paradigms and activities
* Religion
* Commercial and preservation relationships to nature and land
* Politics and practices of the archives
* Interdisciplinary and comparative studies
* Formulations of feminism
* Approaches to encounter, syncretism, and other ways of
conceiving transcultural dynamics
* Sexuality
* Travel, immigration, and diaspora
* Oral and non-textual discursive practices
* Considerations of ethics and social justice
Deadline: Completed papers, formatted using MLA style, should be
submitted by June 21, 2010. Submissions should focus substantially
on periods before 1820 and may be no longer than 10,000 words,
including documentation. Send inquires and submissions to Tamara
Harvey, Dept. of English, George Mason University, 4400 University
Dr., MS 3E4, Fairfax, VA 22030 or <tharvey2@gmu.edu>tharvey2@gmu.edu.
Tamara Harvey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Director of <http://english.gmu.edu/forgraduates/index.php>Graduate
<http://english.gmu.edu/forgraduates/index.php>Studies
Affiliated faculty: Women and Gender Studies
George Mason University
Department of English
4400 University Drive, MSN 3E4
Fairfax, VA 22030
(703) 993-2769
Fax: (703) 993-1161
tharvey2@gmu.edu
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