[показать] CFP: Early Canadian Women Writers (1/30/06; ACQL, 5/28/06-5/30/06)

Paper Proposals are requested for a panel on "Diversity and Change: Early Canadian Women Writers" for the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures at this spring's Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences being held at York University in Toronto, Ontario (Canada).

While nineteenth-century women writers in Britain and the United States have earned a reputation for being diverse and seeking social change through their
writings, early Canadian women writers have been slow to receive the same kind of attention. This panel seeks papers on early Canadian women writers -
preferably beyond Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill, although papers on them will be considered - to show the diverse range of writing styles and
thought that was at work in Canada in the mid-to-late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. Questions that might be considered include
(but are not limited to): Were early Canadian women writers interested in promoting social change through their writing? How do early Canadian women writers consider questions of gender, class, poverty, and ethnicity? How conventional/subversive were early Canadian women writers? How do early Canadian women writers consider the development of Canadian culture,
and was it a part of their literary "agenda"? How do early Canadian women writers'works compare with their counterparts in Britain and the U.S.?

Please send paper proposals (no more than 500 words) with a short biography and a 50-word abstract to the email address listed below by January 30, 2006.

Dr. Jennifer Chambers
Department of English
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3
jchambers@arts.ryerson.ca