Panel Proposal: “Early American Carnality”

ASA Annual Meeting, November 2014
Los Angeles, CA

At its most intimate, colonization involves bodies, altering how
subjects experience and conceive of desire, hunger, touch, comfort,
pleasure, and pain. This panel seeks participants from all disciplines
engaged with the objects of early American studies to contribute to a
discussion of method and theory for understanding early American
carnality. In particular, it is concerned with the intersection of
bodily sensation with evolving understandings of empire, nation,
encounter, and resistance. How was colonization effected through and
affected by sensation? How do theories of affect and intimacy impact
current early American historiographies, and vice versa? How might
Americanists reconceptualize our understandings of the significance of
empire and colonization through attentiveness to early American
sensation? Proposals that consider race, gender, and/or sexuality
dynamically or that explore economic status, religion, local conditions,
or ethno-cultural identities as part of carnality strongly encouraged
(though naming some themes is not meant to exclude other possibilities).

Each panelist will present a 10 minute paper and be paired with a
respondent who will provide prepared comments. Respondents will ideally
be non-early Americanists in order to foster temporal interdisciplinarity.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words for presentations of 10 minutes by
January 20, 2014, via email to: Caroline Wigginton, Department of
English, University of Mississippi,
cwiggint@olemiss.edu<mailto:cwiggint@olemiss.edu>. Panelists should
include a list of three potential respondents. Those interested in
responding to a paper should submit a c.v. by the above date.

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Dr. Caroline Wigginton
Assistant Professor of English
University of Mississippi
C128 Bondurant Hall, P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677
662.915.7674

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