EVENT Nov 20
ABSTRACT May 15
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Young/Adult: Literatures, Cultures, and Media (PAMLA )

San Francisco
Organization: PAMLA
Event: PAMLA
Categories: American, Interdisciplinary, Popular Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Literary Theory, Rhetoric & Composition, African-American, Colonial, Revolution & Early National, Transcendentalists, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy
Event Date: 2025-11-20 to 2025-11-23 Abstract Due: 2025-05-15 Submit Abstract

We invite papers that explore aspects of Young/Adult literature and/or culture, broadly construed. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related. Paper proposals that engage the following questions are welcome: How have notions of age and development impacted and/or been encoded in literary and cultural materials, including media? How has the story of "young adult" or "adolescent" literature been written over, rewritten, or written out, and with what occlusions? What tactics have been used by the “young adult” to resist the occlusion, continually haunting literature? Topics might include diverse voices, publishing formations, memory and forgetting, thematic tendencies, national/international dynamics, and multimodal forms, contexts, and spaces.

goldens4@wwu.edu

Sean Golden