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> >From: Erin Mae Clark <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP: Testimony and Collective Memory in >Literature of the Holocaust (11/10/05; Red >River, 4/21/06-4/23/06) > >CFP: Testimony and Collective Memory in >Literature of the Holocaust (11/10/05; >4/21/06-4/23/06) > > > >The Ninth Annual Red River Conference on World Literature > >North Dakota State University, Fargo > >April 21-23, 2006 > > > >This proposed panel will examine the ways in >which the writer/survivor negotiates his or her >role in narrating the Holocaust. As Charlotte >Delbo tells her reader in the headnote to her >three-volume trilogy, Auschwitz and After, >ěToday I am not sure that what I wrote is true. >I am certain it is truthful.î Thus for a writer >such as Delbo, the purpose of testimony is both >to convey personal experience and to commemorate >silenced voices. > >This panel welcomes 250 word abstracts that >address questions of personal and collective >memory, or which seek to explore another aspect >of testimony related to this topic, such as >traumatic personal narrative or the place of >fiction in the Holocaust testimonial. > > > >Please send abstracts by Nov. 10 as a Word attachment to > > > >erinmaeclark_at_yahoo.com > > > >or by post to: > > > >Erin Mae Clark > >Department of English > >Washington State University > >PO Box 645020 > >Pullman WA > >99164-645020 ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html