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>Thought you might find this interesting
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>>Subject: Fwd: CFP: Discourses of Slavery & Abolition (London) (10/31;
>> 4/6-4/7) (fwd)
>>
>>
>>DISCOURSES OF SLAVERY AND ABOLITION:
>>WRITING IN BRITAIN AND ITS COLONIES, 1660-1838
>>
>>A Two-Day International Conference at the Institute of English
Studies,
>>University of London, United Kingdom.
>>Friday 6 - Saturday 7 April 2001
>>
>>Proposals are invited for short papers.
>>
>>SUBJECT AREA:
>>
>>This conference aims to bring together scholars working on the
literature
>>of
>>slavery and abolition in the long eighteenth century. For almost two
>>centuries, between the formation of the Royal Adventurers to Guinea in
>>1660
>>and the complete emancipation of slaves in British colonies in 1838,
the
>>effects of slavery and the slave trade were evident at every level of
>>British society. Accordingly, there existed by 1838 a considerable
body
>>of
>>literature concerned with slavery, abolition and emancipation, a body
>>which
>>included political tracts and pamphlets, newspaper and periodical
reports,
>>biography and autobiography, and novels, poems and plays. This
literature
>>is often viewed merely as historical source material, an approach
which
>>often precludes a more subtle discussion. The conference will raise
>>questions about its form, genre, rhetorical strategy, its place in the
>>wider
>>context of literature in the long eighteenth century as well as its
>>historical, political, and theoretical context.
>>
>>POSSIBLE THEMES FOR PAPERS:
>>
>>* Fiction, drama, and poetry of slavery and abolition
>>* Journals, letters and diaries
>>* Individual authors
>>* Individual abolitionists
>>* Black self-representations
>>* Rhetoric of abolition
>>* Theories of race and empire
>>* Slavery and Augustan, sentimental, or Romantic literature
>>* Race and gender
>>* Newspapers and periodicals.
>>* Pro-slavery writing
>>* Travel writing
>>* Images of Africa and Africans
>>* Writing the Caribbean
>>* Colonial encounters
>>* Women and the abolition movement
>>* Slavery beyond the Atlantic
>>
>>PROPOSALS:
>>
>>Proposals should be approximately 300-400 words for 20 minute papers.
>>They
>>should be submitted to the conference organisers by 31 October 2000.
>>E-mail
>>proposals are preferred, but typewritten copy is also acceptable.
>>Informal
>>enquiries can also be made to the organisers.
>>
>>SUBMISSIONS TO:
>>
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>>
>>or
>>
>>Brycchan Carey
>>Discourses of Slavery and Abolition Conference
>>School of English and Drama
>>Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
>>Mile End Road
>>London E1 4NS
>>United Kingdom
>>
>>FURTHER INFORMATION:
>>
>>The conference webpage will be regularly updated:
>>
>>http://sites.netscape.net/brycchan/dsa.htm
>>
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>>Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, Sara Salih
>>28 June 2000
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>Dr Brycchan Carey, London, UK
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>>http://sites.netscape.net/brycchan/
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>>
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