[Discussion] Race, Reportage & War

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CFP: MLA: Race, Reportage & War (3/15; 12/04)
The MLA Division on Non-fiction Prose, Excluding Auto-biography is 
hosting a
panel on race, reportage and war that is designed to plumb the racial
underpinnings of supposedly factual reporting.  Whether in a straight news
story, a feature article or a longer non-fiction piece, for years reporters
have made their journalistic reputations on their war correspondence. These
reports, like other cultural texts in society, are larded with racial
ideologies that say much about power and social organization. Papers for
this panel may focus on a writer, a piece or a publication.  It may seek
comparisons between a distant war and the current war in Iraq. Please
forward panel abstracts via email by March 15 to Todd Vogel (email:
Todd.Vogel@trincoll.edu).  Queries welcome.


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Todd Vogel
Visiting Assistant Professor
American Studies & English
Director,
Trinity Institute for Urban Learning and Action
Trinity College
Hartford
860-656-6108
Todd.Vogel@trincoll.edu