Greetings and a Happy New Year to all:
I write with a peculiar request. The provost here at the University of
Pennsylvania has just made a juicy sum of money available to support summer
research for junior Minority faculty.
I am in the process of revising my dissertation and want to look at
print-newspaper history in the West Indies, looking at how this other kind of
literacy (that is, outside of Belle Lettres) constructed affected the desire
for "nation." I want to visit Barbados, Jamaica, Dominica, and Trinidad and
Tobago, (and perhaps Grenada), since those islands produced the canonical
writers that I'm concerned with, to test out my thesis about a
countercultural literacy.
Is there anyone out there at the various UWI branches who might be able to
steer me in the right direction. The proposal is due by January 25 this year.
I look forward to responses. If you like you may contact me off-list at the
address below. Thanking all in advance.
Best, Joe
Joseph N Clarke
Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures
in English
The University of Pennsylvania
English Department, Bennett Hall 119
3340 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19146-6273 USA
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