Call For Papers

THIS CONFERENCE HAS ALREADY ATTRACTED THE INTERESTED ATTENTION OF A NUMBER OF SCHOLARS, FROM BRITAIN, AMERICA, AND AUSTRALASIA, AND PROMISES TO BE EXCITING AND CONTROVERSIAL

An international conference on "Dickens, Empire, and the Child" will be held in Grahamstown, South Africa, from 2-5 September 1996 on Rhodes University campus. Registration on Monday morning, and lectures and panels until Thursday evening. The conference is being planned in co-operation with the University of California Dickens Project.

The convenors invite papers on any topic related to their theme; the three terms of the title are meant to be suggestive rather than restrictive: papers need not address all three aspects.
Possible topics include:

• Children in Dickens's novels
• Children in novels of empire
• Juvenile literature of empire
• Dickens and empire
• Dickens and race
• Dickens and his colonial and post-colonial literary heirs (North American, Caribbean, African, South Pacific etc) Imperial myths of childhood
• Colonial and post-colonial narratives of childhood Children in the imperical city
• Homes and homelessness in the empire
• Exile and return

Please submit papers (or 300-word proposals) suitable for delivery in 30 minutes, plus curriculum vitae and bibliography to
Wendy Jacobson
The Department of English
Rhodes University
Grahamstown 6140
South Africa
Phone: 0461.318407/26497
email: enwj@kudu.ru.ac.za

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: 15 January 1996 (or sooner!)
Notification of acceptance despatched by early March. All papers will be presented in English.
International travel costs at delegates' own expense. Visitors who do not wish to give papers but who would like to attend will be most welcome - please send details.
[Travel by air to Johannesburg or Cape Town, and then to Port Elizabeth]

Wendy Jacobson - Department of English - Rhodes University
Grahamstown 6140 - South Africa
Internet: enwj@kudu.ru.ac.za Tel: 0461 - 318-407 / 400 (W)
FAX: 0461 - 25049 0461 - 26497 (H)

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