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>Date: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:13 PM >From: Cheryl J. Fish <cjf@pipeline.com> Call for Papers For a session that will run as one of the panels of the Non-Fiction Prose Division, excluding autobiography and biography. Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 27-30, 2001 "Emigration, Exile, Ethnography: Narratives of Transformation and Resistance" Papers that address accounts of mobility (travelogues, letters, cyberspace, journals, journalism, polemics) in relation to transformations of a (trans)national, political, and personal nature: Emigration to or from America; exile and the process of assimilation that take into account race, gender, sexuality, and/or class; refiguring the domestic in exile or emigration; the process of the gaze in relation to nature, scientific theories, "news," or ethnography; growing up mobile, or uprooting between cultures; displacements in language, textuality, and place. Comparative work in period or location is welcome. Send 2-3 page abstract and short CV by March 15, 2001 to Cheryl Fish, Dept. of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10013 Fax: 212-346-8635 Cheryl J. Fish <cjf@pipeline.com>
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