Dear colleagues,
Please find below the calls for papers for a special issue of the journal
Entertext which is to be linked to the Society for Caribbean Studies annual
conference to be held in Liverpool next year. If you are thinking of
submitting an abstract for the Liverpool conference in January then you
might be interested in the information below on the special journal issue.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of EnterText on Caribbean Literature and
Culture
Opening Out the Way(s) to the Future
"We can orient for the future only by comprehension of the present in the
light of the past," observed the Caribbean philosopher, C.L.R. James. In
his view, the arts and culture could provide direction and offer
alternatives to present horizons. The "supreme artist," he argued "summed up
the past and [.] opened out the way to the future." In the Caribbean
context, the need to envision alternatives to present horizons has taken on
a new sense of urgency, particularly given the many challenges facing the
Caribbean today, such as the exploitative dimensions of global capitalism,
ecological risk, natural and health disasters -- as in recent events in
Haiti and St. Lucia -- gender discrimination, sex tourism, labour
exploitation, drugs and violent crime.
We invite scholars and creative writers of the Caribbean and its diasporas
to explore present horizons and the (re-)envisioning of the future through
an engagement with the past. More generally, this special issue on the
Caribbean is concerned with questions such as: how can the creative and
critical potential of the arts, social sciences, and humanities be harnessed
to open out the way to the future? What insights do different experiences of
lived time and space offer to contemporary historical and political
perspectives? How do non-Western notions of time relate to revolutionary
dreams and resistance movements, and visions of the Caribbean's role in the
global order? How do Caribbean artists, writers, historians, leaders, and
philosophers represent the uses of the past? What are the perils and
possibilities of looking to the past as a resource for navigating an
uncertain future?
We particularly welcome revised versions of papers initially presented at
the 35th Annual Society of Caribbean Studies Conference, Liverpool, 2011.
Topics for the special issue include, but are by no means limited to:
. Liverpool and the Caribbean
. The Fall of the Plantation Complex
. Museums and Caribbean Histories
. Slavery, Commemoration, and Representation
. Ports and Cities
. Health, Social Policy, and Disability
. Environment and Natural Disasters
. The Challenges of Democracy
. Childhood and Education
. Theatre, Dance, and Performance
. Food and Material Culture
. Colonial Governance and Decolonisation
We also welcome creative writing submissions related to the topics of this
special issue.
Editors of the special issue are Sandra Courtman and Wendy Knepper
Deadline for submission April 15, 2012
Length for scholarly articles: 5000-7500 words
Please address questions, proposals and submissions to
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Best wishes
Sandra
Dr S E Courtman
Programme Director Literature with Creative Writing
University of Sheffield,
Institute of Lifelong Learning
School of Education
196-198 West Street
Sheffield
S1 4ET
Telephone 0114 222 7116
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