Beyond Calypso: new perspectives on Sam Selvon
Warwick University - Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies 
2nd July 2011We  are delighted to announce that Dr Alison Donnell will join 
Professor  Kenneth Ramchand in delivering a keynote address for this event, 
which  will also feature newly restored recordings  of Sam Selvon from the 
archives of the Yesu Persaud Centre for  Caribbean Studies. 


We  welcome 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers taking innovative  
approaches to Selvon's work, to be sent to Malachi McIntosh and Stephanie 
Decouvelaere at [log in to unmask] The deadline for submission is Friday, 
1  April 2011.

Read the full call for papers below or visit the conference webpage for the 
latest information http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/events/selvon/

Beyond Calypso: new perspectives on Sam Selvon
Warwick University - Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies 
2nd July 2011
Keynote speakers:
Professor Kenneth Ramchand (University of Trinidad and Tobago)
Dr. Alison Donnell (University of Reading) 
Samuel  Selvon is one of the Caribbean's most widely-read, popular and  
influential novelists, one whose works have, as early as their first  
publication, been granted classic status.  While the author's significance is 
undeniable, historically Selvon's  oeuvre has been read primarily to seek its 
insight into the lived  experience of the Windrush generation, or its 
replication of the tropes  and techniques of calypso. Selvon's work, though,  
has much more to offer than this. While expressing a strong,  Caribbean-centred 
cultural identity, his writing demonstrates a  perceptiveness that extends 
beyond its immediate context.
Beyond  Calypso will seek to explore the richness of Selvon's work. In advance  
of the sixtieth anniversary of Selvon's first novel, A Brighter Sun, this 
one-day event will draw together new perspectives on the author in order to 
celebrate his contribution to  Caribbean, British and postcolonial literatures.
Selvon's  legacy will also be celebrated through tributes and the presentation 
of  restored sound archives from the collections of the Centre for  Caribbean 
Studies. 

250-words  abstracts are invited for papers that apply new or little-used  
analytical frameworks to the writer and his work. Topics can include,  but are 
not limited to:
- New approaches to Selvon through the optics of gender studies, ecocriticism, 
psychoanalysis, poststructuralism or others
- Creative works - including poetry, fiction and music - inspired by Samuel 
Selvon
- Readings of Selvon's less famous works, including his radio plays and short 
stories, and the novels: An Island Is a World and I Hear Thunder

- Re-engagements with or re-negotiations of existing critical perspectives on 
Selvon's workPlease email all abstracts to Malachi McIntosh and Stephanie 
Decouvelaere at [log in to unmask] by Friday 1 April 2011