*Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention 2015 Call for
Papers*
*Toronto, Ontario** - **April 30-May 3, 2015*
The 46th Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well
as dynamic speakers and cultural events. 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.
*Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014*
https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html
(Look under 'Anglophone' to submit to all 3 abstracts)
*Revisiting the Idea of a 'Black' British Aesthetics*
Does it still make sense to attempt to define a 'Black' British Aesthetics?
A younger generation of writers seems to be (re)creating identity within
more global paradigms. Some recent texts move from one culture to another,
allowing for a more fluid, transnational and transcultural model for both
the production and consumption of art. It's almost ten years since the
groundbreaking Conference at Howard University, so it is time to engage
such questions again--and, hopefully, think of new ones.
Chair: Maria Helena Lima
*Neo-Slave Narratives as Witnessing*
Since the last decades of the twentieth century, writers across the African
Diaspora have attempted to recover elements of the narrative structure and
thematic configuration of slave narratives. This panel seeks to bring
together scholarship on contemporary neo-slave narratives in varied forms
that ultimately challenge the conventions of the genre. Submit 300-word
abstracts to Maria Helena Lima.
Chair: Maria Helena Lima
*Writing Black/Writing British*
The panel invites the rethinking of 'British' by focusing on the literary
contributions of contemporary Asian-, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British
writers. While recent critical attention has focused on some aspects of
'Black' British writing, much too often the attention has been restricted
to a few spectacularly successful writers such as Zadie Smith or Andrea
Levy. The aim of the panel is to look more broadly at the contemporary
literary scene in order to assess what it means when one is simultaneously
writing black and writing British.
Chair: Modhumita Roy
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