UPDATE:
Originally, our proposed volume was to cover the period from
1789-1845. After some queries and discussions, though, we decided to
extend this timeframe to include all of the long nineteenth century
(1785-1914), so we are consequently offering a new call for papers that
reflects the new shape of the volume. The updated deadline is FEB 28, 2001.
Captivating Voices: Writings by Prisoners, Slaves, and Captives 1789-1914
A proposed collection of essays.
We are looking for papers that deal with texts written by those
who were
imprisoned, enslaved, transported, exiled, or otherwise confined through
state-sanctioned dictates. The nineteenth century was a period
during which various constraining practices figured prominently in the
sociopolitical and legal mechanisms of the Western world. In examining
what were generally suppressed and silenced texts, we hope the volume as a
whole will analyze how the narratives both challenge and/or internalize the
dominating social and discursive practices of their times. We are
especially interested in analyses that engage and complicate contemporary
theoretical paradigms of "discipline and punishment."
Possible topics and subjects for papers could include, but are not limited to:
--slave narratives
--captivity narratives
--narratives of imprisonment or transportation
--relationships between prison and nascent sociopolitical organizations, as
in, e.g., abolitionist prison narratives
--narratives by guards or other officials related to the constraining
institution (prisons, slave ships, penal colonies, workhouses, etc.)
Please send one copy of completed papers by February 28, 2001 to the
address listed
below.
Jason Haslam and Julia Wright
Department of English
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
FAX: (519) 746-5788
E-mail for inquiries: <[log in to unmask]> or
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