CFP: Building Ethnic and National Identities through Life Writing (3/8/2012; 1/3-6/2013)

Building Ethnic and National Identities through Life Writing

a panel of the Biography, Autobiography, and Life Writing  division

Historically and today, autobiographies and biographies have often been deployed to help construct ("imagine" in B. Anderson's terms) an ethic, national, or other  type of community in many places of the world. Please note that the submission must have to do with a how a life writing text has contributed to the building of a certain community.

Send 250-word abstracts and 1-page cv to Irene Kacandes (irene.kacandes@dartmouth.edu) by March 8.