[Mendele] MENDELE PERSONAL NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS--Regionalism in Jewish American Literature

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MENDELE PERSONAL NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Feb. 17, 2016

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From:    Sunny Yudkoff <syudkoff at uchicago.edu>
Date:    Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:25 PM
Subject:    CFP: Regionalism in Jewish American Literature

CFP: Regionalism in Jewish American Literature, Studies in American Jewish
Literature, 300-word abstract + brief bio due by April 15, 2016.

We are pleased to announce that Studies in American Jewish Literature: A
Journal of Literary Criticism and Theory is devoting a special issue to the
subject of Regionalism in American Jewish Literature.  Submissions are
invited that thematize regionalism and regional identities in American
Jewish poetry, prose, drama, life writing, and creative nonfiction from all
periods and in all languages of American Jewish literature.

This issue calls attention to the importance of regionalism and localism in
the study of American Jewish literature.  Papers that consider the
institutions that shape(d), support(ed), or discourage(d) American Jewish
writing in or about the American West, the American South, the American
Midwest, Canada, Latin America, the Northeast, or any other areas with
specific regional identities are welcome.  Papers that investigate the
geographical imaginaries through which authors situate(d) regions in
America in relation to Eastern, Europe, world Jewry, and other American
spaces are also encouraged. We also welcome papers that explore the
interplay of urban and rural spaces, cultural centers and peripheries,
notions of exile and diaspora, and different ways of making meaning through
the use of space, both real and imagined. Submissions that explore the
relationship of American Jewish writing and the making of American myths
concerning the land, its settlement, and its peoples are also invited.
Finally, we encourage submissions that take up these questions in English,
Yiddish, Ladino, Arabic, Hebrew, and other languages of American Jewish
expression.

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