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 The original call for papers is appended below=2E =

 =

The extended deadline for proposals on the late nineteenth century is Ma=
rch 15=2C 2007=2E Send inquiries or proposals to Brian Norman (normbria=40=
isu=2Eedu) and Piper Kendrix Williams (williamp=40tcnj=2Eedu)=2E Complet=
ed papers will due by May 1=2C 2007=2E More information=2C including a l=
ink to the special issue website at http=3A//aar=2Eslu=2Eedu/=2E
 =

Representing Segregation
A special issue of African American Review
 =

African American Review is soliciting papers for a special issue on Repr=
esenting Segregation slated for publication in early 2008=2E Is there an=
 identifiable literary tradition responding to=2C representing=2C or pro=
testing U=2ES=2E racial segregation=3F Examination of individual works=2C=
 authors=2C genres=2C or movements are welcome=2E =

 =

Segregation=97as an historical condition=2C a political ideology=2C a mu=
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studies have evidenced great interest in the tropes=2C narratives=2C and=
 legacies of slavery=2C migration=2C and diaspora within the literary im=
agination=2E In addition=2C in recent years scholars have studied specif=
ic practices of segregation in literature=2C most notably lynching=2E A =
broad inquiry into literatures of segregation is necessary to account fo=
r the literary legacy associated with practices of U=2ES=2E racial segre=
gation=2E =

 =

Possible questions individual articles might ask include=2C but are not =
limited to=3A
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=3F Is this a formalist=2C ideological=2C or historicist project=3F
* How have the historical conditions of racial segregation informed narr=
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* What are the aesthetic techniques employed by Black writers to represe=
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* Where is segregation located=3F Is there a geography underpinning the =
literary imagination arising from segregation narratives=3F What place d=
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* What is the relation between literatures of segregation and literature=
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* How and why have writers from different ethnic or racial backgrounds b=
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* Can transnational figures and texts like Richard Wright=92s expatriate=
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egregation=3F =

* What does an African-American literary tradition writ large look like =
from the vantage of a distinct tradition of literatures of segregation=3F=

 =

Send inquiries or proposals to Brian Norman (normbria=40isu=2Eedu) and P=
iper Kendrix Williams (williamp=40tcnj=2Eedu)=2E Inquiries by December 1=
5=2C 2006=3B completed papers are due by May 1=2C 2007=2E More informati=
on=2C including a link to the special issue website at http=3A//aar=2Esl=
u=2Eedu/=2E

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Brian Norman=2C Ph=2ED=2E
Assistant Professor of English
Co-Director of Women=27s Studies
Idaho State University
normbria=40isu=2Eedu
office=3A LA 155 =7C phone=3A 208=2E282=2E4384
www=2Eisu=2Eedu/=7Enormbria

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