Call for Papers, Caribbean Literature at CEA 2022
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