The Canadian Literature Symposium

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Call for Papers - 2010 Canadian Literature Symposium (May 7-9, 2010)

Call for Papers

REDISCOVERING EARLY CANADIAN LITERATURE
2010 Canadian Literature Symposium

May 7-9, 2010
University of Ottawa

Students and teachers of Canadian literature are invited to a symposium at the University of Ottawa to share their scholarship on early Canadian writers, especially to explore new approaches, uncover neglected texts and genres, and assess writers’ and critics’ diverse achievements. Proposals are welcomed on any aspect of early Canadian literature to 1918, including but not limited to the following:

How adequate has been our research into the authors, texts, literary and publishing practices, cultural trends, and social texts of early Canada? What work remains to be done?
Which texts and authors have been effectively recovered over the past few decades, and which have fallen into obscurity—and what criteria have governed recovery efforts?
Have male writers lagged behind female authors in recent criticism?
What new and traditional approaches, critical and editorial, best help us to read early Canadian texts in their historical and cultural contexts?
How is early Canadian literature discussed internationally, if it is discussed at all?

Please send, by e-mail attachment, your 300-400 word proposal, with a 100-word abstract and a 50-word bio-blurb, to Janice Fiamengo, Symposium Chair, Department of English, at fiamengo@uottawa.ca. The deadline for proposals is September 25, 2009.