From: jackie e stallcup <jstallcup>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:15:13 -0800

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DEADLINE APPROACHING! JANUARY 31, 2004

Dreams and Visions Children?s Literature Association?s 31st Annual Conference Fresno, California, June 10, 2004

Gold, Glitter, Growth and Grunge? California dreaming embraces the whole range of our cultural imagination. In the 21st century, we are one of the largest economies in the world and a multicultural, polyglot state with numerous immigrant populations, including Armenians, British, El Salvadoreans, Hmong, Koreans, Mexicans, Russians, Vietnamese and many, many more?. Dreams and visions of a better life?sometimes achieved, sometimes remaining just out of reach?have powered native-born and immigrant Californians for decades.

We welcome abstracts for essays that engage with California and Western dreams, visions, and history specifically, or with dreams and visions relating to children?s literature in general. The conference will be held at the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children?s Literature, where works by Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Leo Politi are emphasized in the collection. Therefore we also particularly encourage essays on the works of these authors.

Suggested topics, as they relate to children and children?s literature:

California and the West: myth and reality Pioneers and pioneering: literal and figurative Westward expansion Missionary experiences Utopian visions and experiments Agriculture and childhood Shattered illusions Global culture/local culture Media and childhood Dreams, visions and culture Race, gender and dreams/visions Dreams and/or visions in literature Paradisiacal visions or images of paradise Technology and childhood Gold rushes in children?s literature (California?s or others) Metaphoric or symbolic ?gold?; e.g. Little Golden Books; Golden Age Urban experiences and life: arts, culture, gangs, poverty, drugs Rural experiences: farm life, agriculture Divisions and intersections of cultures: economic, racial, cultural, geographic Children?s popular culture: movies, television shows, CD-roms, computer and video games
  For questions about the conference, please contact the conference coordinator: Angelica Carpenter, Curator
 Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature California State University, Fresno 5200 North Barton Ave. M/S ML34 Fresno, California 93740?14
(559) 278?16 Email: angelica at csufresno.edu

Please send panel proposals or paper abstracts (250U0 words) to: Jackie Stallcup, English Department California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330?48.
(818) 677412 Email: jackie.stallcup at csun.edu
  Deadline for proposals and abstracts: January 31st, 2004
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