Dear members,
Just to say thank you for your introductions. We have 250
members on this mailbase and your latest descriptions give
us all a glimpse into the diverse and interesting world of
Caribbean research and teaching. It is also good to note
what an international community of scholars we are. Sorry
it this sounds gooey but I am occasionally prone to
sentiment. It won't happen again.
Best,
Sandra
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:10:21 +0200 Judith
Misrahi-Barak <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I also joined the list a few months ago and kept postponing introducing
> myself. But once a dynamic process is started, it continues almost by
> itself!
> I am French and have been teaching in France at university level for 8
> years. My PhD was on the writing of childhood in Caribbean literature
> (writers like Kincaid, Brodber, Edgell, Collins but also Lamming,
> Anthony<HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS>). I still have a weak spot for the writers who resort to
> childhood in their writing strategies, but my interests have been lying
> recently in the Caribbean diaspora more generally & migrant writing <EM DASH>
> particularly Caribbean-Canadian writers, like Nourbese Philip, Dionne
> Brand, Althea Prince, Cyril Dabydeen, André Alexis<HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS> I shouldn't say so
> here but I have also been unfaithful to Caribbean writers a couple of
> times recently, turning my interests towards South Asian writers like
> Mistry or Ondaatje. I am also focusing on Caryl Phillips and Fred
> D'Aguiar and neo-slave narratives, and you may have seen a call for
> papers that I recently circulated on the Caribbean list and on the web,
> for a colloquium I'm organizing at Montpellier University in April 2003,
> 'Revisiting slave narratives'; I also passed an announcement about a
> conference to be held on Naipaul in November (for the pleasure of
> controversy!). I will keep the list posted when I have worked out the
> definitive programme of both events. Please email me if you want some
> information; the deadline for the cfp about slave narratives is
> September 15, so you still have time<HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS>
> Best regards,
> Judith Misrahi-Barak
> Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III
> Department of Anglophone Studies
> 3, route de Mende
> 34199 Montpellier cedex 5
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