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Paper Call

Modern Language Association, Children's Literature Division Session, December 1998, San Francisco. After Alice: Lewis Carroll and Children's Literature. Deadline: 1 March 1998. 1998 marks the 100th anniversary of Carroll's death; this seems an appropriate point in time to evaluate or re-examine his place in the history of children's literature. Harvey Darton has argued that Carroll "changed the whole cast of children's literature." Is this assertion true, and if so, in what ways do the Alice books continue to influence children's reading? How have these two texts changed the verbal and visual landscape, and why have they remained "classics of children's literature" while Carroll's other works addressed to children have become historical? How have biographical and critical studies of Carroll changed the meaning of the Alice books? Can Alice still be read as children's literature? Send 8-10 page paper or 2-page abstract addressing these questions, or otherwise exploring Carroll's children's texts and their influence on children's literature, to

Jan Susina
English Department 4240
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4240

Paper Call

Modern Language Association, Children's Literature Division Session, December 1998, San Francisco. Imaginative Geographies: Colonialism and Travel in Children's Literature. Deadline: 1 March 1998. The journey away from and return home is a familiar pattern in children's literature. This session re-examines the journey with a sensitivity to the politics of travel. How do writers for children imagine and represent "other" cultures and topographies? What economic, intellectual, political, or moral interests and investments do these texts reveal? How does travel establish hegemonic cultural ideals, and to what extent does didacticism inform canons of taste? Essays on empire and imperialism, colonialism, theories of travel, imaginative journeys, or boys' and girls' adventure and frontier stories welcome. Abstracts or 8-10 page papers to

Katharine Capshaw Smith
English Department U-25
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269

Paper Call Reminder

Children's Literature Association Quarterly theme issue: Medieval Children's Literature (Spring 1998): Deadline: 1 May 1997. See Spring 1996 Bulletin Board for details. Enquiries and papers to

Susan S. Morrison
c/o Teya Rosenberg
Department of English
Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666