From: jackie e stallcup <jstallcup>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:31:02 -0800

Please excuse cross-posting as I wish to get this out as widely as possible.

UPDATE: Please note the NEW SITE for this conference! We are still in the greater Los Angeles area, but the conference will be held in MANHATTAN BEACH at the Manhattan Beach Marriott.

Deadline is approaching for proposals: November 30, 2005

Transformations Children's Literature Association's 33rd Annual Conference Manhattan Beach, California June 8-11 2006

Hollywood in particular and Southern California in general are mythologized as "The Dream Factory": the place where miraculous transformations can take place. A young girl may be discovered in a malt shop and transformed into a movie star. An abused and abandoned child may become a blonde bombshell. A high school geek may become a multi-millionaire producer. Such dreams and transformations all have their costs as well, as numerous texts and true stories have attested. Southern California thus seems a fitting place to consider the concept of transformations. We welcome abstracts for essays that engage with transformations related to children's literature and culture.

Suggested topics: Transformations of old tales Feminist versions of fairy tales Politically correct nursery rhymes Elimination of racism, sexism from older texts Revisions of the classics for young readers Censorship Transformation of children's literature in the academy Historical transformations of children's literature Changes in texts Genre and change Trends and transformations (character, genre, illustration, style, theme, format) Transformations of texts: Adult works into children's works Novels into picture books Picture books into movies Classic texts into comic books New media transforming "story" Cross-Cultural transformations: Children's literature and immigration/emigration Transformation of texts of other countries into American or British texts Translations of texts Human transformations: Children into adults Adults into children Human-animal transformations Gender/race/ethnic transformations American dreams of self-transformations and Transformations from outside forces Popular culture Theories of colonization Magical transformations Myth and image Transformative aspects of film

For questions about the conference, please contact the conference coordinators:

Jackie Stallcup (818-677-3412) or Dorothy Clark (818-677-7225).

Send panel proposals or paper abstracts (250-550 words) by email to: jackie.stallcup at csun.edu (no attachments, please!) or by regular mail to Jackie at: CSU Northridge, English Department, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330-8248.

Deadline for proposals and abstracts: November 30, 2005
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