[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Mothering in a Post-Apocalyptic World (9/15/07; NEMLA, 3/1/07-3/4/07)

[gpultar at kulturad.org]

What's a Woman to Do: Mothering in a Post-Apocalyptic World

   By its cultural definition, motherhood is a role that requires one  
to act as a caretaker, to provide a safe and sustaining environment,  
to enable the next generation's well-being. But to live in a  
post-apocalyptic world suggests that the environment has become  
hostile to life, destroying the possibility of a future and hope of  
regeneration.

   This panel explores how does post-1950s fiction present the mother  
figure within the conditions of a post-apocalyptic world? Potential  
approaches may include: Ecocritical Readings, Feminist Theory,  
Psychoanalytical Theory, and Cultural Studies.

   By September 15th,.submit a one page abstract with a brief CV to  
Ilse Schrynemakers, Fordham University,  ischrynemakers at hotmail.com

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