Call for Papers
For the 47th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language
Association
November 10-13, 2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Between Memory and History.
Recent scholarship on ways of representing the past tends to distinguish
between mythic forms of memory – unself-conscious, spontaneous,
compelling – and archival memory or “history” – distant, self-conscious,
deliberate, critical, re-constructive. While the former lays claim to
absolutism and truth, the latter – despite its endless efforts to
document and verify – is painfully aware of the impossibility of truly
representing the past. This session seeks to examine how authors of
fiction or autobiography have negotiated these concepts in order to find
effective ways of accessing the past and ensuring memory in the present.
Please send abstracts (200 words) by April 20th to:
Susanne Lenné Jones
Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
Curtin Hall Room 803, P.O. Box 413,
Milwaukee, WI 53201,
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