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 The
Woman, Nation, Narrative project organized this mini-conference
at the 1998 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in
order to address the following questions:
- Although
nationalism continues to inform, indeed determine, material
conditions in the world, why does it appear to have stalled
as a subject of scholarship?
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Is this because the terms and framework for discussion--including
Benedict Anderson's influential concept of "imagined communities"--envision
narrative as the most appropriate modality?
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this focus on narrative become disabling for discussions that
need to be anchored in materialist explanations?
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I: Materializing Nationalism: Race, Sex, and the Trauma of Citizenship
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Mary Layoun, Comparative Literature, U of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Discussant: Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, English, Oberlin College |
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"Nationalist
Narratives and (Dis) Appearing Women: State-Sanctioned Sexual Violence,"
Anna Agathangelou, Women's Studies and Politics, Oberlin College |
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"Nationalism
Without Patriotism: Frida Kahlo Remaps the Nation," Steven S. Volk,
History, Oberlin College |
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"'Our
Nation's Attic': Creating American Identity at the Smithsonian Institution,"
Tasslyn Frame, History, Case Western Reserve University |
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II: Is the Model Open or Closed? Rethinking Anderson |
| Chair:
Mary Layoun, Comparative Literature, U of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Discussant:
Wendy Kozol, Women's Studies and History, Oberlin College |
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"'Respecting
the Existence of Marks': Mary Prince, Libel, and National Identity,"
Kathryn Temple, English, Georgetown University |
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"Representative
Subjects: Modes of Representation in Anderson's Imagined Communities,"
Larry Needham, English, Lakeland Community College |
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"Unimaginable
Communities: Limits and Openings in Discourses of Nationalism,"
Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin,
Madison |
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