[показать] CFP: Women and War (grad) (2/1/06; (dis)junctions, 4/7/06-4/8/06)

Women and War in 20th Century Literature

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the University of California
Riverside’s 13th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 7-8,
2006.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works portraying women in war narratives. These papers can examine works both by women or in which women are included. Any theory or critical approach is welcomed, as are interdisciplinary works.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Women addressing the cultural changes concomitant with a war environment
Women on the home front
Sexuality in war narratives
Feminism and war
War propaganda
Woman as witness to war
Longing/loss/desire
Forgetting and denial/controversies of memory
Mothers in a war environment
Representations of women in war movies
Gender roles/ gender blurring within war narratives
Women as refugees of war
Women, war and media
Abstracts of 250 words should be e-mailed to
hmlovejoy@yahoo.com by February 1, 2006 (text in the body of the message; please no attachments).

Proposals sent via snail mail should be postmarked by
February 1, 2006 and sent to:

(dis)junctions
Department of English
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323

For more information, please visit the website at
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions
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