[CALIBK12] Call for Papers: Return to Prince Edward Island: Anne of Green Gables at 100

[ladewig]

Just spotted this on the Children's Lit listserve. Well, it's nice to know
someone is talking about Anne during the year of her 100th birthday, even if
the conference (in San Francisco) isn't until the end of December . . . !

 

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:52:31 -0500

From: "Michelle A. Abate" <mabate at hollins.edu>

Subject: [child_lit] Call for Papers:  MLA 2008

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Call for Papers 

 

Return to Prince Edward Island:  Anne of Green Gables at 100 

 

Panel for Modern Language Association Annual Conference 

 

December 27th - 30th, 2008

 

San Francisco, California

 

 

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

 

*     the past place, present status and future importance of Anne in
children's literature

*     Anne and (de)construction of gender and girlhood

*     the pastoral tradition and literary romanticism in Anne

*     Anne and/as adolescent literature

*     Anne and Canadian identity, literature, nationalism and culture

*     cinematic, theatrical and television adaptations of the Anne story

*     Anne in American, British and Canadian popular and material culture 

*     Anne and/in the evolution of the "girls' book" 

*     L. M. Montgomery as Anne author and icon

*     Anne as a reflection and/or revision of the orphan story

*     female friendship in Anne; the novel as both homosocial and possibly
homoerotic/queer

 

 

Send 2-page abstracts to Michelle Ann Abate, mabate at hollins.edu

 

Deadline:  March 1st, 2008

 

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Michelle Ann Abate

Assistant Professor of English

Assistant Editor, Children's Literature

Hollins University

P.O. Box 9677

Roanoke, VA  24020

phone:  (540) 362-6317 

fax:  (540) 362-6097

mabate at hollins.edu <mailto:mabate at hollins.edu>  

 

posted by:

Joanne Ladewig  (A.K.A. "Library Lady")

Library Media Tech

Lawrence Elementary, GGUSD

Garden Grove, California

shatz at verizon.net

 

Comments are my own and may not represent the views of GGUSD

 

 

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