african-american

Much insightful scholarship has been published on the representation of
racial passing in American literature, especially in texts from the
antebellum period through the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow segregation.
Even in a “post Civil Rights era,” however, racial passing has continued to
interest writers as a means to explore identity and race relations in
America. Within the last decade and a half, authors as diverse as Elizabeth
Atkins Bowman, Wesley Brown, Alice Randall, Philip Roth, and Danzy Senna,
among others, have incorporated racial passing within novels. Perhaps the
most highly visible evidence of the continued relevance of racial passing

As a Guest Editor of The Southern Quarterly, I would like to update the call for
papers I'd submitted previously. The Southern Quarterly solicits essays for the
special issue " 'My Southern Home': The Life and Literature of 19th Century
Southern Black Writers," scheduled for publication Spring 2008. Below is a copy
of the new announcement with submission details, noting the updated deadline of
July 16, 2007. Please continue to advertise this announcement on your website.
If you should have any further questions or concerns, please contact me
directly.

Thanks,

Contemporary Slave Narrative

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention (SAMLA)
Atlanta, Georgia
November 9-11, 2007

Black Women’s Writing Revisited: Womanism, Black Consciousness, and
Postcolonial Connections
Special issue of "gender forum" - Guest ed. Sabine Broeck, University of
Bremen

UPDATE: New Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 4/25/07
 
Approaches to Teaching Early African American Poetry (1700-1900) (4/15/07; 11/8/07-11/11/07)

Special Session Topic Panel: M/MLA 2007 Annual Convention, November 8-11, Cleveland, Ohio

Dear Colleagues,

Publishing a conference paper in a refereed journal is rarely the immediate
outcome of a conference presentation; however, this call for papers is also
a call for such scholarly articles.

Please read the email below, visit the website listed below, and if you
still have questions, feel free to contact me directly.

Do pass this call on by word of mouth and via your other list-serves.

Finally, encourage your Ph.D students to submit abstracts -- the Zora forum
is an excellent source of both intellectual support and constructive
criticism.

Deidre Crumbley

            deidre_crumbley_at_ncsu.edu

919 787 8153

>> Call for Papers: AWP Panel, In Praise of: 13 Ways to Be Mentored
>>
>> Mentoring often happens in private, between a person and a book, one
>> writer
>> alone with a few pages of someone's text, another writer she feels
>> inexplicably
>> drawn to. Who are the writers we return to? And for what reasons? How
>> do writers
>> enter an alternative form of mentorship with writers they've only met

The Black Theatre Association (BTA), a focus group of the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), seeks essay submissions for
its 7th Annual Debut Panel. We encourage all graduate students and
non-tenured faculty working on African American theatre and
performance studies who have never presented at ATHE or a national
conference to apply. Papers may consider any aspect of African
American dramatic criticism, theatre history, plays, playwrights,
performers, directors, designers, etc. The highest quality papers
will be selected by our distinguished panel of theatre scholar
judges: Harry J. Elam, Jr., Olive H. Palmer Professor in the

PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
CALL FOR PAPERS, ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE DIVISION PANEL
 
BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON
2 and 3 November 2007
 
Please email proposals (500 words along with a 50-word abstract) on any aspect of African American literature by March 15, 2007 to
 
Jennifer Lynn Stoever
Department of American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California
stoever_at_usc.edu

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF BLACK MEMORY CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR

University of Miami Hosts Critical, Creative Conference from June 22 – 29, 2007

Call for Papers
African American Literature Symposium
"Catching the Flavor and Rhythm of Life: The Legacy of Zora Neale =
Hurston in the 21st Century"

 For a proposed special session at MLA 2007 in Chicago.

Black Women Writers of New England: Revisiting Ann Petry and Dorothy West.

This special session will explore comparative literary studies of the
writings of Ann Petry and Dorothy West. Papers or abstracts by l5 March
should be sent to Pearlie Peters (petersp_at_rider.edu). Abstracts and papers
must be accompanied by a statement indicating the proposed presenter's
current membership in the MLA.

Dr. Pearlie Peters,
Professor of English
Department of English
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648-3099
609, 895-5566

This is an UPDATED call for papers to contribute to an article collection on African American and
Afro-Caribbean Women Writers.

We are soliciting manuscripts that critically examine contemporary works by African American and
Afro-Caribbean women writers. Manuscripts should explore factors that shape African American
women's identities and trace processes of memory formation as they occur in domestic and public
spheres.

Specifically, we are looking for submissions which address the following areas of influence:

religion
mythologies
magical realism
gender and sexualities
sites of eating and the role of food
historiography
violence
family
vocation/profession

The African/African American session of South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) welcomes abstracts of 500 words for papers to be presented in Memphis, Tn.
   
  Title of Panel: Switching Currents of Hybridity On/Off. Many African Americans can claim more than one racial identity, creating hybrid identities. Papers are requested that explore characters that switch from one identity to another in African or African American literature.
   
  Abstracts or full papers should be submitted to the panel chair.
   
  Dr. Juluette Bartlett Pack
  juluettepack_at_yahoo.com
  DeVry University
  11125 Equity Dr.
  713-973-3150
  Houston, Tx 77041