Call for Papers
*Title: Revealing the Invisible: Love and Loss in (im)Migration**
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45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 3-6, 2014
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Host: Susquehanna University
For children of (im)migrants, there are gains and losses; usually the gains
are living in an economic situation that is better than the ones their
parents left behind in their homeland and provided with better education
possibilities. Losses can include; not being able to speak the mother
tongue and never knowing family members. The negative impact that
(im)migration has on family and culture, is often ‘invisible’. With
increasing globalisation and movement of peoples and intermarriage of
different ethnicities, these effects are becoming increasingly visible.
They are issues that children of (im)migrants now have the challenge and
confidence to write about.
The aim for this panel is to look particularly at the recent immigration of
the past 60 years of (im)migrant children of the parents of African,
Caribbean and Asian descent to Britain, who moved to the UK under the
invitation of the British to help with maintaining their health service and
public transportation system; the dreams that they were (often) falsely led
to believe, in contradiction with the reality that they found.
This panels seeks session proposals that explore the lives of descendants
of (im)migrants to Britain of African, Caribbean and Asian parentage
The literature of Black Britain has been steadily growing, as these
descendants have themselves become parents, discovering love and losses as
(im)migrant children in their host countries. With the current political
the situations that they face continually challenge them to consider their
lives, the past and the future for themselves, their parents and their
children.
The proposals can take one of the themes suggested, a combination, or a
different one entirely, yet should adequately present the situation and the
argument offering a concrete image of life in Britain through the eyes of
these descendants, offering a variant history, to one that is often not
spoken of.
Issues of Race, Loss of Identity, Loss of culture, Language, Land, Poverty
Issues of Education, Diversity, Wealth
(this ‘loss’ and ‘love’ can also be expressed as ‘change’)
The dichotomies and amalgamations in between love and loss; living and
loving across boundaries and ethnicities.
We are looking for explorations of these through the creative writings of
descendants of (im)migrants in English and in mother tongue (with English
translation) and or Creole
We are particularly looking for the invisible, i.e. how it is prevalent for
those concerned but not always obvious in the public eye.
*Deadline: September 30, 2013*
Please include with your abstract (max 300 words):
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)
Please send your abstact to
Kadija George (Chair of Panel)
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Please noet; the 30 Sep deadline is strictly adhered to. I look forward to
receiving your submissions.
The 2014 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing
innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. This capitol
city set on the Susquehanna River is known for its vibrant restaurant
scene, historical sites, the National Civil War museum, and nearby Amish
Country, antique shops and Hershey Park. NeMLA has arranged low hotel
rates of $104-$124.
The 2014 event will include guest speakers, literary readings, professional
events, and workshops. A reading by George Saunders will open the
Convention. His 2013 collection of short fiction, *The Tenth of December*,
has been acclaimed by the *New York Times* as: “the best book you’ll read
this year.” NeMLA’s Keynote Speaker will be David Staller, Producer and
Director of Project Shaw. Mr. Staller presents monthly script-in-hand
performances of Bernard Shaw’s plays at the Players Club in New York City.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA
session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar).
Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at
a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
http://www.nemla.org/convention/2014/cfp.html
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Kadija George
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