ethnicity and national identity

Native American Writing Systems and (Counter)Discourses of Identity

This session will consider the role of Native American writing systems
and recordkeeping before contact and in post-contact literatures.
Especially welcomed are papers that consider how indigenous literacies
are informed by different worldviews than Eurowestern literacies, how
Native writing is conceived of as a socially-constituted act, and how
early tribal writers invoke and deploy these methods of record as unique
rhetorical strategies. Please send an abstract and one-page vita to
pmkgsl_at_rit.edu by January 10.

UPDATE
***Call for Papers***
Issue 3.2: Multiple Literatures in America: Hybrid, Homogeneous, or
Hegemonic?

The third open issue of Xchanges, an electronic journal focusing on
interdisciplinary exchange between all areas of the humanities, will
appear in March 2004. Xchanges is a component of the Y/X Project of the
American Studies Program at Wayne State University and is made possible
by the Rushton Endowment. Xchanges solicits work from scholars on the
graduate level and is also eager to include exceptional papers by
upper-level undergraduate students. The editor of the journal is
Julianne Newmark and the technical editor and webmaster is Joy Burnett.

Please review the call for papers below and attached and consider
contributing to this proposed collection. Your assistance in
forwarding this to friends and colleagues via e-mail, listservs, or
bulletin boards would also be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Toni Nelson Herrera
Louis Mendoza

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Call for submissions for a proposed volume of multi-generic writings

Yo hablo, yo soy. ?Y que!: New Perspectives from Latinas/os on their Dynamic Language Experiences

The Journal of the Short Story in English: Special Issue on Henry Roth.

Although Jewish American writer Henry Roth is best known as a novelist, he
also left behind a rich store of short stories, both published and
unpublished, at his death in 1995. The majority of published pieces,
collected together in the 1987 volume, Shifting Landscape, were written
during the 60-year period between his first novel, Call It Sleep and his
second Mercy of a Rude Stream.

New International Sephardic Journal Accepting Papers

A new journal called the International Sephardic Journal: A Biannual =
Journal Exploring the Sephardic World Past and Present is expected to =
publish Volume I, Issue I midwinter 2004 . The International Sephardic =
Journal (ISJ) is a new publication which plans to explore the Sephardic =
Jewish world past and present. Issued biannually in English to an =
international membership of readers, ISJ strives to present interesting =
essays, articles and papers on the Sephardim.=20

* Papers are sought from both univeristy affiliated staff and students =
as well as the general public. *

NOW ACCEPTING PAPERS - CLOSING DATE 15 DECEMBER 2003

Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing seeks submissions for a
special issue on Ireland and Film. Rebecca Steinberger will be the
guest editor of this special issue on recent Irish films, planned for
appearance in spring of 2005. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to: how is the nation represented in recent cinematic
interpretations? What constitutes ?Irish? cinema? How does the Irish
question surface in film? What is the role of history in film
narrative? How does film?s function in Irish culture differ from that
of written fiction or plays? In what ways do film soundtracks reflect
traditional Irish music? What role does the Irish landscape assume in
film?

Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon

    Abstracts of 500 words or original papers of 25-35 pages are being
solicited for Hungry Words, an anthology which will examine representations
of hunger or famine in the works of canonical Irish authors. The terms
³famine² and ³canonical² are, of course, loaded ones in Irish studies, and
it is my particular desire to collect essays which question the various
manifestations of these terms in recent literary scholarship.

Contested Again: Cultural, Historical, and Pedagogical Implications of Race
Call for Papers for a Critical Collection, by Valerie Kinloch and Jia-Yi
Cheng-Levine

CFP: Rage, Resistance, and Representation: Women in U. S. Race Riots

Atlanta, GA. Washington, DC. Wilmington, NC. Chicago, Philadelphia,
Ocoee, New York, Tulsa: cities – among many others – that have been home
to race riots in the United States over the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. This collection of essays will investigate the various active
roles women, and particularly minority women, played in such riots,
paying specific attention to exposing the cultural fallacy of women’s
passivity in the public realm of violence, especially in relation to the
construction of racial identity and cultural race relations.

Irish space(s): zones and margins

        Etudes Irlandaises invites submissions for a special issue on
"Irish space(s): zones and margins", to be published at the end of
2004. The guest editors are Claude Fierobe and Sylvie Mikowski
(University of Reims, France).

        Possible topics, broadly defined, include (but are not
limited to): The Pale and beyond: civilisation versus the wilderness;
In-between space(s), no-man's lands, marginal space(s);
Border-crossings, gaps and borders; Passages and passengers;
Space(s): reality and fantasy; Cultural space(s):
perception/reception of another's space.

        CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

NEW COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON PHILIP ROTH
Deadline for abstract submission: 10/15/03

Call for Articles (La revue LISA / LISA e-journal)

LISA E-Journal is inviting contributions to an issue on :
Contemporary Art and American Minorities : an Iconography of Identity?

Encyclopedia of Ethnic
American Literature

Editor
Emmanuel S. Nelson
Department of English
SUNY-Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045
Ph: 607-753-2078
Fax: 607-753-5978
E-mail: emmanueln_at_hotmail.com

Advisory Board
Ken Cerniglia (Cornish College
   of the Arts)
Guiyou Huang (Kutztown University)
Arnold Krupat (Sarah Lawrence College)
Paul Lauter (Trinity College)
Ann Shapiro (SUNY-Farmingdale)
Loretta Woodard (Marygrove College)

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS