CALL FOR PAPERS
Creating the Child's Voice
A workshop hosted by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's
Writing http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CCWW.htm at the Institute of
Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, on Friday, 28 January
2011.
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2010
Following the success of the two Launch Events on 'Writing Childhood'
(October 2009 and May 2010), the CCWW is organising a third event to
further explore this topic from a narratological/discursive perspective.
This one-day workshop will look at works by contemporary women writers
in Western Europe that represent the experience of childhood. Again
concentrating on works in French, Germanic, Hispanic, Italian and
Portuguese languages, it seeks to combine the broad comparative
cross-cultural perspective of the previous events with a thematic
investigation focusing on the narrative creation of the child's voice.
In exemplary analyses and /or theoretical explorations, the papers will
address questions such as the following:
* What narrative and stylistic techniques are at play in the
creation of the child's voice?
* To what extent can a child's voice in a literary work by an
adult author be considered 'authentic'?
* How does the authorial perspective affect the child's voice?
* In narratives that depict the development of a child into
adulthood, what is the relationship between the child and the grown-up
s/he turns into? How is this relationship conveyed through the handling
of voice?
We welcome proposals that compare the construction of the child's voice
in texts written by adults ('childhood autobiographies') and books
written by children.
300-word abstracts for papers of 30 mins. length should be sent by 30
September 2010 to Gill Rye, [log in to unmask] .
It is envisaged that a selection of papers from this seminar and from
the two previous events will be published in an issue of the Journal of
Romance Studies.
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