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American Literature Association (ALA)

Future Conferences and Symposia

February 12, 2010
The 2010 Heart’s Day Conference
In commemoration of the 50-year anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s death
Howard University
Send abstracts of approximately 250 words to english@howard.edu
or d_williams@howard.edu
Deadline for abstracts: December 15 , 2009.

May 27-30, 2010
American Literature Association
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA
Conference Director: Alfred Bendixen
abendixen@tamu.edu
www.americanliterature.org
Deadline for Proposals: January 30, 2010


Two Trains Running, August Wilson

Flyin West, Pearl Cleage

“[T]he function of literature . . . is to remind us of our common humanity and the cost of that humanity.”

Ralph Ellison, “On Initiation Rites and Power”

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston