Dear Colleagues,
Below I include a cfp for the journal Sargasso. This issue will discuss links between Puerto Rico and St. Croix.
Thank you,
Don E. WalicekSargasso Managing Editor
– SARGASSO CALL FOR PAPERS –
Puerto Ricans in
St. Croix: language, Culture, and Community
submission deadline December 17, 2009
SARGASSO, a
Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture is accepting submissions for an upcoming issue with
the preliminary title "Puerto Ricans in St. Croix." Research on Caribbean languages (especially Creoles and
contact languages) in fields of inquiry such as migration studies, cultural
studies, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, linguistic ethnography,
and historical linguistics is welcome, as is work that is interdisciplinary in
nature.
A history of
constant flows characterizes Puerto Rican migration to the U.S. Virgin Islands,
particularly the largely English-speaking island of St. Croix (Rabin, 1988). The
first massive migratory wave of the twentieth century took place in the 1920s
and was composed mainly of individuals and families who settled in the newly
acquired territory due to an economic crisis that followed the establishment of
two US military bases on the Puerto Rican islands of Vieques and Culebra. In
response to the growing numbers of Spanish-speaking students, the Department of
Education was forced to offer bilingual education to the newcomers. Puerto Rico
was the closest territory to recruit teachers, a situation that resulted in a
second migratory wave with origins that go back to as early as 1918 (Murphy,
1977) and extend into the 1980s. Today the movement among the Puerto Rican
mainland, Vieques, and St. Croix continues. It has created a unique migratory community that it shaped by
ongoing and highly complex processes of cultural and linguistic contact across
these non-independent territories.
Given that the
contemporary situation and its history still remains underdocumented, this
issue of Sargasso aims to encourage the
discussion of these and closely related topics. Themes
that might be addressed include, but are not limited to:
– Language ideologies & language
attitudes
– Language, race, & symbolic violence
– Bilingualism & multilingualism
– Sociohistorical ethnography
– Demographics & language change
– Migration and diasporic communities
– The politics of identity & ethnicity
– Processes of identity formation
– Stories and histories of migration
– Language & political economy
– Cultural contact & hybridity
Essays
should be 10-20 pages and double-spaced.
Abstracts of 120 words or less should accompany essays. B & W
photos, illustrations, and other graphics can be included. Book reviews and review essays
of recent scholarship on the Caribbean are also welcome. They should be approximately 1,000 and
2,000 words in length, respectively.
For submissions send to: [log in to unmask]
Sargasso has been edited at the University of
Puerto Rico, Río Piedras for more than 20 years. The journal features
work on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Caribbean and its
multiple diasporas.
For more information visit:
http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/pubs/sargasso.htm
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