ethnicity and national identity

New Series Announcement

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AND CANADIAN WRITERS

Call for Proposals for a new series of academic monographs

Manchester University Press is proud to announce the launch of a new
series dedicated to the critical appraisal of contemporary North American
writers. The series will reflect the breadth and diversity of writing in
America over the last thirty years, and will provide critical evaluations
of established, emerging and critically neglected novelists. This series
offers an exciting opportunity for authors to explore notions of the
contemporary, and to analyze current and developing modes of
representation with a focus on individual writers and their works.

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Arab-American Feminisms," a special journal issue
to be published in the Spring 2005 edition of the MIT Electronic
Journal for Middle East Studies. http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/

THE JNZL PRIZE FOR NEW ZEALAND LITERARY STUDIES

The Journal of New Zealand Literature is offering an annual prize for an original piece of research in the area of New Zealand Literary Studies. The prize will be awarded for the first time in 2005.

* The prize will be awarded for a first publication in the area of New Zealand literary studies. We particularly encourage work from graduate researchers and emerging scholars, but the prize is also open to established researchers in other fields who are making their first foray into New Zealand literary studies.

* There will be a cash prize of NZ$250.

* The winning entry will be published in JNZL (The Journal of New Zealand Literature).

* The prize is open internationally.

Edited Book on Recent Arab Women's Autobiographical Writings in English
Call for contribution

    My book Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies. Shahrazad Tells Her
Story was published last November (2003) by Texas University Press.
The book fills a gap in the field. Texas University Press expressed
interest in another book in the same area.
    In the book, I looked at autobiographical, fictional
autobiographical and anthologies of interviews with women. I read texts
by Huda Shaarawi, Nawal El-Saadawi, Fadwa Tuqan, Bouthaina Shaaban,
Fatima Mernissi, and Nayra Atiya. The book also examined the
sociopolitical background of the texts as well as the tradition of
narrative theory.

Call For Papers—Please Forward

We call for papers for a proposed edited
collection on the topics of literature and
authority—governmental, legal, rhetorical,
anthropological--in the Pacific, including
Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the
Philippines, Malaysia, other Pacific Island
nations and Hawai'i. Successful essays will
address one or more Pacific writers and/or texts,
including both indigenous and "white" writers,
and will address either how the
interrelationships of politics and culture
affects writers, readers, and literature or how
literatures (traditional and non-traditional)
reflect themes of the relationship of history,
authority, and cultural self-expression.

Call For Papers
Brown v. Board of Education: Its Impact on Public Education 1954-2004

"Africa in India, India in Africa." Among the topics to be addressed
in this collection of essays will be the following: The Siddhis of
Gujarat, and contemporary interaction between African nations and south
Asia; The two waves of Indians to Africa; subsequent migration from and
within Africa in the 20th century; West Indian migration to Britain and
interaction with African immigrants in Britain; West Indian migration to
the US, and interaction with African Americans; Self-representations and
objectification by others in film, fiction, drama, etc.; Political and
economic interaction among local and immigrant communities. On a
broader theoretical plane, this collection of essays seeks 1) to address

UPDATE: Call for Papers

Abstracts on women's roles in specific race riots (listed below) are
invited to complete a collection tentatively entitled "Rage, Resistance,
and Representation: Women in U. S. Race Riots."

Springfield, IL (1908); East St. Louis, IL (1917); Chicago, IL (1919);
Detroit, MI (1943)

- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -

Pulse: a journal of anticolonial thought, expression and activism

What matters to you?

Got thoughts on racism, colonization, privilege, power, or more?

SPECIAL ISSUE: MELUS

MESTER LITERARY JOURNAL
CALL FOR PAPERS

Please notice extended deadline: March 15th, 2004

Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its Special Issue to b=
e
published in June 2004, which will be devoted to:

Transformations: Re-imagining Identity

The centennial celebrations of Alejo Carpentier and Pablo Neruda, whose
works contributed to new representations of Latin American identity, serv=
e
to highlight how this concept has been re-imagined over the years. In thi=
s
Special Issue we seek to explore the topic of identity from a wide range =
of
scholarly points of view.

CFP: White Male Embodiment (04/01/04; Collection)

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We are gathering articles for a proposed collection on the white male
body as text and representation.

Recently, a number of scholars have responded to the lack of scholarship =
pertaining to manhood and the male body, and have paid increasing =
attention to the role and status of white men. This recent work suggests =
that embodying white men usefully dismantles the myth of a monolithic =
disembodied privileged white manhood. Not surprisingly, this still =
relatively new focus on the white male body and white male difference =
has provided a beginning rather than an end and still leaves a =
significant gap.

Writing Macao:
creative text and teaching

Submissions are now sought for the second number of Writing Macao:creative
text and teaching, to appear in November of 2004. Contributions are
particularly sought in the area of theory and practice relating to the
teaching of creative writing in English in non-native contexts. The
deadline for papers is 1st May, 2004. Submissions of creative work will
also now be accepted.

CFP - NEW COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON PHILIP ROTH AND RACE