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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Waldron, Karen E. "Coming to Consciousness, Coming to Voice: The Reinvention of Eve in American Women’s Writings," Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University, February 1994.
The dissertation proposes a new method for analyzing the emergence of voice in American women’s writings. Both black and white women authors linked the private body to political argument by invoking maternal experience. Historicizing the connection between motherhood, feminism and abolition, and using the figure of Eve as an interpretive lens, shows how narrative struggles with the ideological Eve “reinvent” the domestic script. The project exposes the spiritual dead-end of a script caught between images of the idealized mother and saintly child-woman by demonstrating how it gives way to the socially conscious mother’s story.
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