Call For Papers!

Dear all,
I'm writing on behalf of my supervisor, Dr. Joan Anim-Addo, at
Goldsmiths,
University of London, as we are having the fifth International
Conference
of Caribbean Women's Writing very shortly. Should you have any queries
about the conference, please send an Email to <[log in to unmask]>
Could you forward this to your colleagues and research students please?
Thank you. Best Regards,

				                Midori Saito
                                   Ph.D. Candidate,
                   Goldsmiths, Univ.of London, [log in to unmask]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Fifth International Conference of Caribbean Women's Writing
Goldsmiths, University of London, Caribbean Studies Centre
27 - 28 April, 2007

The deadline for an abstract is 5 February 2007.
Please submit an abstract of not more than 250 words and brief biography
with full details including institutional affiliation. Please send
abstracts to the conference committee <[log in to unmask]> or post to:
The Conference Organising Committee,Caribbean Studies centre,
Goldsmiths,
University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW UK

Possible topics for consideration include:
Caribbean Women Writing, Women/ Representation/ Diaspora, Slavery and
the
Gendered Body, 'Relation' and Women's Writing, Absent Mothers/ Absent
Fathers, Creole languages, Creolisation, Diaspora and Region,
Theoretical
Discourse and the Creole Cultural Artefact, 'Creative friction' and
Conditions of Cultural Production, Oral Word/ Written Word/ Visual Art/
Verbal Art.


MAIN CONFERENCE THEME: Writing, Diaspora and the Legacy of Slavery
The year, 2007, with its centennial focus on the abolition of the slave
trade and its impact on the Atlantic world including slave colonies of
the
Caribbean is no better year in which to further the debate concerning
Caribbean women's writing. Specifically, the conference theme seeks to
embed the central motif of burden of production/ reproduction which fell
to African-Caribbean women in the immediate aftermath of abolition and
to
extend this to contemporary issues of writing and representation within
the region and the diaspora. Assuming Creole culture to be a significant
part of the legacy of Atlantic slavery, how might meanings of
creolisation
inscribed within artefacts of the culture be fruitfully read? In
engaging
with creolisation, is the breadth of responses limited in their
applicability to the region or is the diaspora also to be considered
relative to issues of creolisation? How are power dynamics and
resistance
implicated in cultural forms that have emerged and how has the
racialisation of Atlantic slavery impacted on these as well as on issues
of voice within the diaspora and the Caribbean region? We welcome
exploration of these and many more questions interrogating cultural
responses to the complex knowledge and experience of trans-Atlantic
slavery.
	While the conference, 'Writing, Diaspora and the Legacy of
Slavery' is
grounded in a concern with Caribbean Women's Writing, papers that are
interdisciplinary and / or stretch the limits of this theme to include
other forms of cultural expression like music, film, visual arts and
digital technology are of particular interest.