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Professional Notes
African American Review "Representing Segregation" Short CFP Representing Segregation. Is there an identifiable literary tradition responding to, representing, or protesting US racial segregation? Examination of individual works, authors, genres, or movements welcome for a special issue of African American Review slated for early 2008. Inquiries first to: Brian Norman (normbria@isu.edu) and Piper Kendrix Williams (williamp@tcnj.edu). Inquiries by December 15, 2006; completed papers are due by May 1, 2007. More information, including a link to the special issue website at http://aar.slu.edu/.
Representing Segregation African American Review is soliciting papers for a special issue on Representing Segregation slated for publication in early 2008. Is there an identifiable literary tradition responding to, representing, or protesting US racial segregation? Examination of individual works, authors, genres, or movements are welcome. Segregation—as an historical condition, a political ideology, a municipal planning scheme, and a de facto social system—profoundly shaped the lives of African Americans and other groups in the first half of the twentieth century, at least. Whether protesting, rejecting, refusing, or reaffirming segregation, numerous writers have necessarily responded to the history and experience of racial division in their literary projects. The past two decades of African American literary studies have evidenced great interest in the tropes, narratives, and legacies of slavery, migration, and diaspora within the literary imagination. In addition, in recent years scholars have studied specific practices of segregation in literature, most notably lynching. A broad inquiry into literatures of segregation is necessary to account for the literary legacy associated with practices of US racial segregation. Send inquiries or proposals to Brian Norman (normbria@isu.edu) and Piper Kendrix Williams (williamp@tcnj.edu). Inquiries by December 15, 2006; completed papers are due by May 1, 2007. More information, including a link to the special issue website at http://aar.slu.edu/. Representing Segregation African American Review is soliciting papers for a special issue on Representing Segregation slated for publication in early 2008. Is there an identifiable literary tradition responding to, representing, or protesting US racial segregation? Examination of individual works, authors, genres, or movements are welcome. Segregation—as an historical condition, a political ideology, a municipal planning scheme, and a de facto social system—profoundly shaped the lives of African Americans and other groups in the first half of the twentieth century, at least. Whether protesting, rejecting, refusing, or reaffirming segregation, numerous writers have necessarily responded to the history and experience of racial division in their literary projects. The past two decades of African American literary studies have evidenced great interest in the tropes, narratives, and legacies of slavery, migration, and diaspora within the literary imagination. In addition, in recent years scholars have studied specific practices of segregation in literature, most notably lynching. A broad inquiry into literatures of segregation is necessary to account for the literary legacy associated with practices of US racial segregation. Possible questions individual articles might ask include, but are not limited to: • Is there such
thing as a segregation narrative or a Jim Crow narrative?
Is this a formalist, ideological,
or historicist project? Send inquiries or proposals to Brian Norman (normbria@isu.edu)
and Piper Kendrix Williams (williamp@tcnj.edu). Inquiries
by December 15, 2006; completed papers are due by May
1, 2007. More information, including a link to the special
issue website at http://aar.slu.edu/.
Delta Blues Symposium XII: Delta Diversity The Department of English and Philosophy at Arkansas State University (Jonesboro campus) announces its twelfth annual Delta Blues Symposium, to be held 30 March-1 April 2006. The theme for Delta Blues Symposium XII is "Delta Diversity." Presentations are encouraged from scholars and students of the humanities and social sciences-especially anthropology, art history, economics, folklore studies, geography, history, literature, musicology, political science, and sociology. This year's theme also encourages presentations from the natural and physical sciences which examine how the seven-state Mississippi River Delta provides a varied physical and cultural environment for a range of cultural responses from diverse groups defined by ethnicity, class, religion, gender, and other factors. It should be emphasized that though we especially encourage presentations dealing with "Delta Diversity," we welcome proposals for papers and panels which deal with any and all aspects of the region or with the blues, perhaps the region's most famous export. We particularly invite presentations on artists who have appeared at previous symposia (fiction writers such as Lewis Nordan, Ellen Douglas, John Dufresne, Barry Hannah, and Beverly Lowry; poets like Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Harper, and Al Young; visual artists, including James Fraher, David Rae Morris, and Maude Schuyler Clay; and musicians such as Frank Frost, Little Milton, CeDell Davis, and Billy Lee Riley). Program proposals may be for individual presentations or for panels. These should be sent as 100-word abstracts. We also urge participation by creative writers and other artists. Please send samples of previous work for our consideration. The submission deadline is 13 January 2006. The registration fee of $25.00, which covers Symposium expenses and brings a one-year subscription to Arkansas Review, will be collected after proposals have been accepted. Note that this fee is waived for currently enrolled students. Proposals may be sent via post, e-mail, or fax to the following address: Delta Symposium Committee Further information can be had
by contacting the Delta Symposium Committee or by checking
the Symposium website: www.clt.astate.edu/blues College Language Association - April 5-8, 2006 The University of
Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host the sixty-sixth
annual convention of the College Language Association,
April 5-8, 2006, in Birmingham, Alabama. The College
Language Association (CLA) is a professional organization
of university and college professors of English and
Foreign Languages. Founded in 1937 |