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<div>PERIODICALS AND WORKING CLASS CULTURES:
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<div style="font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: medium;">The Research
Society for American Periodicals solicits proposals for papers on
American periodicals and working class cultures to be delivered at the
American Literature Association's 23rd Annual Conference, 24-27 May
2012 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in Embarcadero Center.</div>
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periodicals such as _The Messenger_ (founded as the official organ for
the Pullman Porter's Union) to the _Worker's Daily_ - What role have
periodicals played in forming and re-forming class consciousness among
the working classes in the U.S.? What unique methodological challenges
do working-class periodicals pose? How do working-class periodicals
expand our understanding of readership and activism, labor and literary
culture? How does literature or literary criticism in _The Partisan
Review_ or _The New York Review of Books_ shape our understanding of
the high-brow or low-brow audiences? What brow is the _New Yorker_,
anyway? What are the challenges & possibilities for teaching
material that concerns working class issues from highbrow sources?
Conversely, what in various working class periodicals was designed
explicitly or implicitly to teach? We seek submissions concerning any
aspect of American working-class magazines, newspapers, or periodicals
in any form. </div>
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<div style="font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: medium;">Please send a
one-page abstract submissions to Susanna Ashton at <a
href="mailto:sashton@clemson.edu">sashton@clemson.edu</a> by <b>January
16th
2012.
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<div style="font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: medium;">Please put
"RSAP panel submission" in the subject line, thanks. </div>
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