SSSL Call for Papers for ALA 2014 SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHERN LITERATURE 2014 American Literature Association Conference Washington, D.C. May 22-25, 2014 Call for Papers (2) Deadline extended until Jan 25, 2014. “The South in the Mid-Atlantic” The Society for the Study of Southern Literature invites paper proposals related to southern literature and southern literary history in the mid-Atlantic region. Examples of possible approaches include studies of works set in Washington, D.C., Maryland, or other mid-Atlantic locations; considerations of ideas about writing in this region informed by new work in southern studies; or explorations of border-ambidextrous authors. Proposals related to genres other than the novel, as well as relevant creative work, are welcome also. Please email abstracts and either a cover letter or 2-page CV by January 25, 2014, to Tara Powell at tfpowell@gmail. For further information about these sessions or SSSL, please contact Tara Powell, or for information about the conference, consult the ALA website at americanliterature.org. “The Dixie Limited Derailed?” The Society for the Study of Southern Literature invites paper proposals for an ALA session reconsidering Flannery O’Connor’s assessment of William Faulkner as the Dixie Limited train in whose path no southern writer would want his “mule and wagon” stalled. Was this true, is this true, and what might we say about the influence of Faulkner on southern writing today? Are other major authors playing such a role today? Examples of possible approaches include considerations of O’Connor’s observation in her time or later; explorations of the notion of influence in literary studies; or studies of relationships between the work of contemporary writers and major twentieth-century writers such as Faulkner, O’Connor herself, James Dickey, Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy, Tennessee Williams, and others. Proposals related to genres other than the novel, or that combine genres, as well as relevant creative work, are welcome also. Please email abstracts and either a cover letter or 2-page CV by January 25, 2014, to Tara Powell at tfpowell@gmail. For further information about these sessions or SSSL, please contact Tara Powell, or for information about the conference, consult the ALA website at americanliterature.org.
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