CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND PARTICIPANTS:  Literary Fathers and Daughters Panel at the James Jones Society and Norman Mailer Society Conference

Attached is an exciting opportunity for papers for the upcoming James
Jones Society and Norman Mailer Society Conference. This panel provides a venue
for papers exploring the topic of Literary Fathers and Daughters. Please
send proposals to Carolyn Yalkut at jrnalism@albany.edu by August 8.
For further information about the conference, please go to www.normanmailersociety.org

DEADLINE:  August 8, 2011

SEND TO:   Carolyn Yalkut, University at Albany, jrnalism@albany.edu

For a panel at the Mailer Jones Conference devoted to the topic of Literary Fathers and Daughters, Society members are invited to propose topics for presentation. 

This panel is designed to facilitate maximum interaction among all participants.  Panel format will consist of brief (10 minute maximum) remarks or presentations, followed by the floor being opened to roundtable discussion among participants, including questions and contributions from the audience. 

The topic was inspired not only by the presence at the Conference of James Jones’ daughter Kaylie (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries), but also by the remarks made by Danielle Mailer after the recent screening at Lincoln Center of the new documentary Mailer: The American.

Given the numerous antecedents — Virginia Woolf and Sir Leslie Stephen; in our own time, Rosanna Warren and Robert Penn Warren; Susan and John Cheever; and in Mailer’s orbit, Alexandra and Bill Styron — and the fact that Norman Mailer had five daughters, proposals are welcome from any vantage point of this rich topic (literary, cinematic, historical, biographical, psychological &c. &c.).