CALL FOR PAPERS
What’s really new? Blackness and Atlantic Modernism, 1907–61.
Symposium: University of Liverpool, UK.
30 June – 2 July, 2011.
Deadline for CFP: 27 April, 2011
Keynotes:
Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
Hazel Carby, Yale University
CALL:
What constitutes a ‘modernist’ response to the experience of the modern? What categories underpin the aesthetic category ‘modernism’? How might emphasis on black diaspora subject positions, representations, and artistic and political interventions, inflect current canonical configurations of modernism? To what extent might black feminist positions revise or even reject the totalizing tendencies of the male voice in canonical works of black modernism, for example, Négritude?
Individual papers and proposals for panels, in English, are invited. Proposal for panels should contain a panel title, working titles for individual papers, with individual abstracts of 250 words each, and brief biographical notes on the chair and/or speakers. For individual papers, please send a working title, abstract of 250–350 words, and a biographical note to: Fionnghuala Sweeney: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Kate Marsh: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Proposals on teaching and curating are also welcomed, as are offers to act as chair or respondant.
First Publication Details:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/Afromodernism/IJFS_Afromodernisms_%282%29.pdf
Afromodernisms2: http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/Afromodernism/index.htm
Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney
ILAS
University of Liverpool
L69 7WW
UK.
+44 151 7943325
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