CFP: Toni Morrison Society (1/15/06; ALA, 5/25/06-5/28/06)

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The Toni Morrison Society invites proposals for 15-20 panels at 2 panels at=
 the 2006 American Literature Association Conference, May 25-28, San Franci=
sco, California. Email 200 word proposals to address below by 15 Jan. 2006.=

1. Toni Morrison and Black Women Writers:
Morrison's impact on women writers
How Morrison has opened up "space" for women writers
The shifts in Black women's fiction before and after Morrison
The relationship of Morrison's fictional texts to other genres of Black wo=
men's writing.

2. Toni Morrison and Post Colonialism:
Papers on how Morrison's text represents new forms of Black expressive dis=
course, not solely based on a response to social injustice but involving a =
critique of multiple forms of discrimination and oppression inside/outside =
specific cultural/geographical boundaries.
Yvonne Atkinson
Membership Chair, TMS
yatkinso_at_csusb.edu
909 537-5837

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