The last date for submitting papers for the book on Indian Literature
(Indian Writing in English) has been extended until 25 February 2007.

Details:

We are publishing a book on Indian Literature (Indian Writing in English)
dedicated to our teacher and head Dr B S Valke by the end of December.

Indian Writing in English has become a renowned phenomenon by now; however,
there is a dearth of high quality critical material on it. Therefore we
invite papers of high literary standards by scholars who would especially
like to present Poststructuralist / Postmodernist perspective on Indian
Writing in English.

The last date for submitting papers for the book on Indian Literature
(Indian Writing in English) has been extended until 25 February 2007.

Details:

We are publishing a book on Indian Literature (Indian Writing in English)
dedicated to our teacher and head Dr B S Valke by the end of December.

Indian Writing in English has become a renowned phenomenon by now; however,
there is a dearth of high quality critical material on it. Therefore we
invite papers of high literary standards by scholars who would especially
like to present Poststructuralist / Postmodernist perspective on Indian
Writing in English.

The last date for submitting papers for the book on Indian Literature
(Indian Writing in English) has been extended until 25 February 2007.

Details:

We are publishing a book on Indian Literature (Indian Writing in English)
dedicated to our teacher and head Dr B S Valke by the end of December.

Indian Writing in English has become a renowned phenomenon by now; however,
there is a dearth of high quality critical material on it. Therefore we
invite papers of high literary standards by scholars who would especially
like to present Poststructuralist / Postmodernist perspective on Indian
Writing in English.

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New =
Literatures of
English (ASNEL) /

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f=FCr die Neuen Englischsprachigen =
Literaturen
(GNEL)

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,

May 17-20, 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS

=93LOCAL NATURES, GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES=93

=20

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New =
Literatures of
English (ASNEL) /

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f=FCr die Neuen Englischsprachigen =
Literaturen
(GNEL)

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,

May 17-20, 2007

=20

=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

=93LOCAL NATURES, GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES=93

=20

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New =
Literatures of
English (ASNEL) /

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f=FCr die Neuen Englischsprachigen =
Literaturen
(GNEL)

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,

May 17-20, 2007

=20

=20

CALL FOR PAPERS

=93LOCAL NATURES, GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES=93

=20

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New =
Literatures of
English (ASNEL) /

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f=FCr die Neuen Englischsprachigen =
Literaturen
(GNEL)

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,

May 17-20, 2007

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Papers are solicited for a collection of critical essays tentatively titled: Crowned with Laurel: Critical Essays on African American Pulitzer Prize Wining Literature . This collection of essays will examine eleven works by African Americans that have won the country's most prestigious award. Those works are:
   
  1950: Poetry—Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
  1970: Drama—No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Gordone
  1978: Fiction—Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  1982: Drama—A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
  1983: Fiction—The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  1987: Fiction—Fences by August Wilson
  1987: Poetry—Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
  1988: Fiction—Beloved by Toni Morrison

Papers are solicited for a collection of critical essays tentatively titled: Crowned with Laurel: Critical Essays on African American Pulitzer Prize Wining Literature . This collection of essays will examine eleven works by African Americans that have won the country's most prestigious award. Those works are:
   
  1950: Poetry—Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
  1970: Drama—No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Gordone
  1978: Fiction—Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  1982: Drama—A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
  1983: Fiction—The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  1987: Fiction—Fences by August Wilson
  1987: Poetry—Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
  1988: Fiction—Beloved by Toni Morrison

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
³Race and Coalition²

The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of ³Race and
Coalition.² Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
field of race and ethnic studies by using a ³classic² piece as a point of
departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
economic, political, and cultural terrain.

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
³Race and Coalition²

The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of ³Race and
Coalition.² Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
field of race and ethnic studies by using a ³classic² piece as a point of
departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
economic, political, and cultural terrain.

The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation,
the University of California Riverside's 14th Annual
Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7, 2007.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
the 20th cent. American poets known as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
poets. Papers on any writer considered to be a member
of this school are invited, as are pieces exploring
any issue or discussion surrounding L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
poetry.

Also encouraged are creative works in the unique style
of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets.

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
³Race and Coalition²

The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of ³Race and
Coalition.² Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
field of race and ethnic studies by using a ³classic² piece as a point of
departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
economic, political, and cultural terrain.

Swietokrzyska Academy in Piotrkow Trybunalski (Poland)

English Philology Department

Invites all the interested scholars to participate in an international
two-day conference:

Cultural representations of psychiatry and mental illness

18th – 19th May 2007

The suggested topics might include but are not limited to:

Representations of the mentally ill in cinema and literature (shell-shock
and other posttraumatic shock disorders, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder, eating disorders, substance-abuse related illnesses, suicide)

Representations of the doctor-patient relationships

Gender and madness

Writing as a symptom/writing as a cure