[Bilimsel Haber] Britain in the Twentieth Century: Homeland? Haven? Exile? (3/10/06; MLA '06)

[Nazan Haydari]

 New deadline announcement

Call for Papers for 2006 MLA 20th Century English
Literature Division 
Panel, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30

Organizer: Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University

"Britain in the Twentieth Century: Homeland? Haven?
Exile?"

Papers are invited that explore representations of 
immigration to 
Britain in the twentieth century.  Although much
attention has been given to the acculturation,
displacements, and cultural re-formations of colonial
and postcolonial British subjects in Britain, this
panel will provide a comparative perspective.  In
addition to exploring representations of emigration
from British colonial and postcolonial sites, the
panel will consider the experiences and
representations of immigrants from eastern and
southern Europe and in turn, British responses to
these various immigrant groups and their cultural 
practices and productions.

We invite discussions of writing and other forms of
representation by and about various immigrant groups,
including Jews, gypsies, and other peoples throughout
Europe and anywhere else who 
sought safety and security in Britain over the course
of the twentieth century.  In order to understand this
experience in context with 
British reception, we also welcome papers about the
following subjects:
parliamentary and media debates on the perceived and 
projected 
> effects of immigration on British culture and
identity, on the legal 
and cultural status of immigrants   as refugees,
expatriates, enemy or friendly aliens, or as future
citizens; 
- on the impact of immigration on immigrants' cultural
identity and production, on genderrelations, and on
relations with other groups of immigrants.
>
>Please send inquiries or 300 word, double spaced
abstracts by March 
10, 
>2006 to
>Phyllis Lassner: 
><file:///mailto:phyllisl@northwestern.edu>phyllisl@northwestern.edu


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