CFP: Black Poetry Out of the Archive (5/6/06; MSA, 10/19/06-10/22/06)
Call for Papers
Panel for Modernist Studies Association 8
University of Tulsa
Oct 19-22
Black Poetry Out of the Archive
Because poetry written by blacks in the United States since the turn of
the 20^th Century has mainly been defined in terms of its oral or
experiential power, little attention has been given to the literate
aspects of that poetry's development, production, or publication.
Archives, of course, are the record of such literate processes, and many
of the archives of some of modernism and postmodernism's most important
black writers have yet to be adequately studied for the critical light
they can shed on the poetic work.