Literary Texts as Raciolinguistic Projects?
Literary Texts as Raciolinguistic Projects?
The emerging field of "raciolinguistics" brings together linguistics, education, sociology, critical race theory, anthropology, and other fields, in an effort to jointly theorize race and language, "paying particular attention to how both social processes mediate and mutually constitue each other" (3). In what ways do literary texts facilitate, complicate, and negotiate the joint formation of racial and linguistic identity? What can literary studies glean from this new mode of inquiry? Please submit 300-word abstracts to chouston@english.umass.edu by March 1 for consideration for a special sesssion at MLA 2018.
Work Cited:
H, Samy A, R R. John, and F B. Arnetha. Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Print.