Laura Jeffries (Florida State College at Jacksonville)
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National narratives are iterative projects that can never arrive at a singular true story. While public understandings of American history and culture have always been destabilized by information misappropriation and the white nationalist agenda, collectively the humanities have aimed to establish shared and ever-improving contexts for interpreting past and present. But the (re)mainstreaming and elevation of far-right voices in the last ten years has dangerously fractured the American text. In keeping with this year’s conference theme on the production and transmission of knowledge, this traditional session invites submissions related to the false histories and mythopoetic projects far right ideologues have developed in an effort to replace, overwrite, reinterpret, or erase any component of the real American narrative and the principles that have animated it. Our panel on National Narratives of the Far Right convenes for the third time at SAMLA 97 after robust participation across two sessions last year in Jacksonville—we welcome proposals centered on fiction, nonfiction, non-traditional, current, or historical materials.
By August 15, please submit an abstract of 250 words, a brief bio, and any A/V or scheduling requests to Laura Jeffries, Florida State College at Jacksonville, at jeffries@fscj.edu.