CFP: Female Modernism

[Carlos Fernando Camargo]

CALL FOR PAPERS

We tend to classify authors as "modernist" according to the time period or
place in which they lived or according to certain stylistic innovations
that set them apart from more "conventional" writers. But the modernist
canon, as most of us have encountered it, has been primarily composed of
works by male writers, which raises questions about the gender bias of
modernism itself. But what is "female modernism"?--a genre, a literary
period, a language, a mode of writing, a political agenda? How does the
inclusion of female perspectives change our understanding of modernism in
general? How do gender-conscious reading of modernism's central players
inform a revisionist vresion of modernism?

For a critical anthology of modernist women writers we welcome submissions
on this topic by August 1, 1994. The only guidelines we propose right now
are that you directly address the topic as you conceive it and that your
essay be somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty pages (5,000 words).
Interdisciplinary papers are welcome; please use MLA style. Send one copy
of your paper to EACH of the addresses below (write to us e-mail if you
have questions, send manuscripts snail mail):

Professor Beth Harrison
19 Short St.
Charleston, SC 29401
e-mail: "harr...@cofc.edu"

Professor Shirley Peterson
Daemon College
4380 Main St.
Amherst, NY 14226-3592
(716) 839-8305/836-3580
e-mail: "visp...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu"