Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2009 Copyright (c) 2013 Georgia State University All rights reserved. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009 Recent documents in Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2009 en-us Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:55:16 PST 3600 New Voices Conference 2009 Flyer http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/6 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/6 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:02:07 PDT Georgia State University Department of English I'll Fly Away: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of African-American Homecomings http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/4 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/4 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:56:34 PDT As part of the 1940 Federal Writer’s Project, the Savannah, Georgia Unit sought to authentically record oral traditions and life experiences of coastal African Americans in their own words. The study sought to produce an important artifact of African American culture through dialectal awareness, especially to preserve these dialects during an apocalyptic linguistic change. Among the many voices, Katie Brown’s echoed reminisces of a family history. Combined with Cornelia Walker Bailey’s memoir, God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man, this historical documentation gives life to the cultural traditions brought by Bilali and other slaves when they were forcibly settled on the plantations of coastal Georgia. These forced settlement patterns arose from the antebellum institution of chattel slavery and continued postbellum with established settlements of the former slaves (most of whom identify their heritage as Geechee) who stayed in Georgia before and after the Great Migration of the early 1900s. Analyzing internal language features through their corresponding socio-cultural influences provides a written certification of a primarily oral heritage. Therefore, I focus my research lens on the settlement patterns that occurred both during and after slavery.

]]> Jeanne Bohannon Doubt, Hope, and the Comfort of the Apocalypse: Hopkins Concludes the Christian Narrative with That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/5 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/5 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:56:34 PDT Joseph L. Kelly New Voices Conference 2009 Pamphlet http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/3 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/3 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:56:34 PDT Georgia State University Department of English New Voices Conference 2009 Call for Papers http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/2 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/2 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:38:59 PDT The 10th Annual New Voices Conference focuses on representations of the Apocalypse as they manifest throughout history, across cultures, and in language. The conference committee invites papers dealing with any aspect of mankind's conception of the End-of-Days. Individual papers or panel proposals may center upon any time period and any culture or people. They may furthermore draw thematically from such academic disciplines as literary criticism and theory, medieval and renaissance studies, poetry, fiction, philosophy, religious studies, medieval and renaissance studies, art history, biblical history, cultural geography, and folklore. We also welcome papers exploring the rhetoric of the apocalypse, which may range from interrogations of the political rhetoric of alarmism to the religious rhetoric of technology-age theology.

]]> Georgia State University Department of English New Voices Conference 2009 Conference Program http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/1 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_conf_newvoice_2009/1 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:38:58 PDT Literature and Rhetoric of the Apocalypse: From Ragnarök to Rapture

This year’s theme, From Ragnarök to Rapture: Literature and Rhetoric of the Apocalypse, has drawn the attention for scholars from various disciplines, such as English, comparative literature, film criticism, and the creative arts. Presenters so far on the docket include a wide variety of GSU students as well as young scholars from other departments and even from other countries.

Select presentations range from dragons as emblems of change and disaster in medieval literature, to Marilyn Manson and the capitalist consumerism of the image of the Anti-Christ, and from Samuel Beckett and the epistemology of the stage, to a post-apocalyptic reading of zombies and the undead in modern film.

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