Call for Papers, Caribbean Literature at CEA 2022

March 31-April 2, 2022 | Birmingham, Alabama

Sheraton Hotel, Birmingham | 2201 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd N, Birmingham, AL 35203

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Caribbean Literature for our 52nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

We welcome individual and panel presentation proposals that address Caribbean literatures in general, including—but not limited to—the following possible themes:

• resistance: protesting injustice
• equality: shifting perceptions of race, class, cultures, regions, genders, sexualities
• discourse: employing rhetoric and argument
• reclamation: spotlighting forgotten or unknown texts, authors, and cultures
• physicality: placing the body/publishing the text in contested spaces
• movements: challenging the status quo through ideas, genre, or form; migration, exile, transnationalism, and/or globalization
• legitimacy: considering literature and the law
• education: teaching empathy and dialog
• individuality: combining the personal and political
• nationalism and citizenship
• hybridity, transculturation, creolite, and mestizaje

Submission: August 15-November 1, 2021

For more information on how to submit, please see the full CFP at www.cea-web.org

Membership: All presenters at the CEA 2022 conference must become members of CEA by January 1, 2022. To join CEA, please go to www.cea-web.org

Other questions? Please email me at Lxbarrio@ualr.edu.

Sincerely,

Laura Barrio-Vilar, Ph.D.

English Department

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

2801 S. University Avenue

Little Rock, AR 72204