>
>(Please note: this call for papers has been updated to
>reflect the Modernist Studies Association's
>designation of the modernist period as late nineteenth
>through mid-twentieth century.)
>
>Other Movements: Public Transportation and the
>Modernist City (4/01/04; MSA 10/21/04-10/24/04)
>
>Theorists of movement through the modernist city have
>focused almost entirely on the flaneurís stroll and
>the motoristís drive. This proposed panel for the
>Sixth Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference
>in Vancouver will explore how public transportation in
>the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth century
>offers alternative figures for the modernist self in
>motion, alternative histories of the city, and
>alternative metaphors for modernity. How do writers of
>this period use images of public transportation to
>tell other stories of modernism? What new models of
>community do the omnibus, elevated train, or subway
>offer? How is the subject on public transportation
>ěpublicî (or not)? What metaphorical modes of
>ětransportationî accompany the literal ones? What
>visual, material, and social histories do different
>forms of public transportation tell? Papers are
>welcome from all disciplines.
>
>
>Please email a 300-word abstract, 1-page CV, and
>contact information in the body of an email (no
>attachments please) to:
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>by April 1, 2004
>
>Sunny Stalter
>
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