Panel: Shaping Transatlantic Identities Travel has always been closely connected with shaping and constructing identities—national, gendered, racial, and class identities. Since the building of the American nation, men and women, black and white, have crossed the Atlantic, both physically and metaphorically. Transatlantic travel has often involved the confrontation with otherness and the examination of self as it was mirrored against the foreign society. The creation of transatlantic identities based on these crossings have been recorded and circulated in a variety of texts, including letters, journals, pamphlets, novels, and travel writing. In this panel, we welcome papers that explore the notion of transatlantic identities in literary and cultural texts, from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics might include social and cultural mobility, migration, immigration, expatriation, rootlesness, celebrity, and cosmopolitanism. Please submit a one-page abstract and brief cv to Sirpa Salenius (sirpa.salenius@gmail ) and Whitney Womack Smith ([email protected]) by 15 February 2014. transatlanticstudies/25301/3701.html
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