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Call for Papers
FRIVOLOUS CULTURES, SERIOUS POLITICS:
WOMEN IN SPANISH CULTURAL ARENA 1900-1936
44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts
Host Institution: Tufts University
The cultural life of early twentieth-century Spain is often conceived as a black and white picture: the seriousness of hard-core intellectuals debating the “problem of Spain” versus the supposed frivolity of popular pleasures evading the said problem. It is possible to assume, however, that many artists and intellectuals, as well as their audiences, did not experience politics and pleasures as necessarily opposed to each other. Moreover, the pleasures of popular culture can, and often do, create the conditions for social change. This panel seeks to examine the points of contact between, on the one hand, serious ideological and political platforms, and, on the other hand, the lighter spaces of popular culture. More specifically, the panel aims to explore how, during the first four decades of the twentieth century, the spaces of mass and popular culture provided opportunities for women’s involvement in the public arena. We invite submissions that look at these points of contact between hard politics and productive pleasures in the fields of popular literature, mass culture, music and performance, fashion… Please send 300 word abstracts by email attachment to Pepa Anastasio and Nuria Cruz at the email addresses below
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Deadline: September 30, 2012
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