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Gretchen Sharlow <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:53:29 -0500
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THE ELMIRA COLLEGE CENTER FOR MARK TWAIN STUDIES ANNOUNCES

THE VERY LAST CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A CONFERENCE - ELMIRA 2001: THE FOURTH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE STATE OF MARK TWAIN STUDIES, August
16-18, 2001, at Elmira College, Elmira, New York

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPER IS  - JANUARY 31, 2001.


TEN PAGE PAPERS SUITABLE FOR TWENTY MINUTE PRESENTATIONS ARE INVITED ON
THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

Mark Twain and Visual Representation: (May include films, posters,
television shows, documentaries, cartoon, illustrations)

Mark Twain and the Body: (May include bodies in pain, the racialized
bodies, the gendered bodies, the sexualized bodies, the transformed
bodies)

Mark Twain and Status: (May include economic class, social class, racial
class, manners, titles, behaviors)

Mark Twain and the Nation: ( May include civic identities, racial
identities, hybrid identifies, nationalism, imperialism, exceptionalism)

Global Mark Twain: ( Mark Twain in countries other than the United
States.  How is Mark Twain used in other countries?)

Mark Twain: Friends and Enemies: (Loyalties to and animosities toward
his contemporaries)

Mark Twain: Narrative Strategies: (May include structure, persona,
voice, closure)

Mark Twain in Pieces: (May include short stories, maxims, fragments,
letters,sketches,speeches)

Mark Twain: 1900-1910: (May include biography, works, crusades,
self-imaging)

Mark Twain at His Funniest: (. . .)

Papers will be read by juries without knowledge of authorship. Please
omit your name from page one.  Put your name and address on a title
page.

Send papers in duplicate to:
Gretchen Sharlow, Director
The Center for Mark Twain Studies
Elmira College
One Park Place
Elmira, NY 14901

        To request a Conference Registration Form send your name and
address to : [log in to unmask]

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