The Missing as Cultural Discourse.
Submissions are sought for a collection
of essays on the missing as cultural discourse. The editors are interested
in a range of approaches to a variety of texts and media, but would
particularly like to receive essays that focus on how lost or absent
individuals function as sites for negotiations of desire, difference,
material history, representation, and social power in contemporary American
culture. Essays might address, but are not limited to, the following
topics: missing children (in the news, on milk cartons, in suburbia);
missing mothers (or fathers or children) in made-for-television movies;
missing media stars; missing fathers in neo-conservative representations of
the welfare state; missing fathers and the men's movement. Please send two
copies of abstracts with bibliography or completed essays by 15 October
1995 to either Amanda Howell, Dept. of English, University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY 14627 (aho2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu), or Andrew Schopp, Dept.
of English, Rhodes College, 2000 north Parkway, Memphis TN 38112
(schopp@rhodes.edu).