The "New Maya Voices" session at the MLA which I am chairing for the 1999 convention in Chicago can consider proposals focusing on the Menchú controversy, although proposals on other writers, such as Victor Montejo, Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez or new Maya theatre groups such as Sna Jtz'Ibajom can also be considered (the session is sponsored by the MLA Committee on Community Colleges; see the Winter 98 MLA Newsletter, p. 10). Please note that to present at the MLA you must be an MLA member if your field is literature and language; a special "dispensation" can be granted to people in anthropology or other disciplines. Because I, Rigoberta Menchú has become canon, a session focusing on this matter will have pedagogical and curricular as well as theoretical implications. I can be contacted at shepbklyn@aol.com. Proposals are due by March 1.
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