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Call for Papers: Translational Spaces: Language, Literatures, Disciplines
A postgraduate and early career conference at the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, University of Oxford, 22 FEBRUARY 2020
World Literature as a discipline has generated much debate, with scholars vying to define and delimit the field (see Damrosch, Apter, Moretti, Casanova, Spivak). This disruption of the definitional confines of World Literature stands alongside a radical questioning of the parameters of Modernism, Postcolonial, and Comparative Literature studies. Our conference aims to explore the demarcation, widening, and recalibration of ...
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CFP: Special Issue for Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature on Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing
We are welcoming submissions for a Special Issue of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature on experimentation and innovation in contemporary Black British Women’s Writing (eds. Elisabeth Bekers, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Helen Cousins).
This special issue aims to appraise the burgeoning field of Black British Women’s Writing in a collection of essays that considers the literary innovations of British women of African and African-Caribbean descent since the 1990s. The issue will highlight the centrality of aesthetic creativity in writing by black British women in order ...
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Conference: “Intellectuals Across Borders: Writers, Artists, Activists”
University of Münster, 5-6 September 2019
Co-hosted by the University of Lisbon
"Misala ya silent" © Mbajani G. Nyangulu
The second PIN Network Conference "Intellectuals Across Borders: Writers, Artists, Activists" will take place in Münster/Germany, co-hosted by the University of Münster and the University of Lisbon. The opening event is scheduled for the evening of Sept. 4, 2019. The conference closes on Sept. 6, 2019.
Intellectuals Across Borders explores the dynamic formations of postcolonial intellectual work in the manifold European public spheres. The conference works with the idea ...
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CALL FOR PAPERS – US-Mexican Encounters In Contemporary North American Cinema
Hello everyone,
Please see below a call papers.
IMEX. MÉXICO INTERDISCIPLINARIO / INTERDISCIPLINARY MEXICO CALL FOR PAPERS US-MEXICAN ENCOUNTERS IN CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICAN CINEMA
Editors of this issue: Guido Rings and Stephen Trinder
Contributions to this iMex issue will explore the impact of the Trump era on images of Mexicans and Chicanos in recent US and Mexican cinema.
Throughout the 2016 US presidential campaign and Donald Trump’s subsequent election to the presidency, Mexican immigration and Mexican-Americans, or Chicanos, were a central issue. Among a number ...
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Call for Contributions: PSA Newsletter #23 – Postcolonialism & Visual Culture
In "Notes on Postcolonial Visual Culture" (2011), Arvind Rajagopal points out that
Analysts of visual culture have only recently begun to reckon with the complexity of postcolonial visual culture, acknowledging that it presents discontinuous temporalities and complex aesthetic forms that challenge routine ways of relating the history of media form to conventional historical processes. (11)
In this special issue of the PSA newsletter we examine how the relationship between postcolonialism and visual culture has evolved in the last ten years, and we ask ...
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CFP out for next PSA Convention in 2019
http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk/2019-psa-convention/
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Call for papers Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures Postcolonial Text, Double Guest Issue 13:3 & 13:4, 2018
Call for papers
Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures
Postcolonial Text, Double Guest Issue 13:3 & 13:4, 2018
The aim of this double guest issue is to examine the notion of network(s) in relation to literary production on the African continent. As a theoretical tool, the notion refers to a complex system of interconnected individuals or institutions, one that often transcends physical borders and that is hard to delineate due to its ever-evolving and shifting nature. If one tends to focus ...
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Call for papers: Special Issue on Native American Narratives in a Global Context
Call for Papers: Native American Narratives in a Global Context
Special Issue to Appear in Transmotion: An Online Journal of Postmodern Indigenous Studies
Deadline for Abstracts: 1st October 2017
In the contemporary moment, the world has seen an increase in transnational and decolonial activist movements around indigenous rights. Idle No More, Rhodes Must Fall, the BDS movement for a Free Palestine and the Dakota Access Pipeline protests have all garnered international attention and trans-indigenous calls of solidarity. These politics have found their ways to ...
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Third Biannual Northern Postcolonial Network Symposium: Asylum, Refuge, Migration CfP
Third Biannual Northern Postcolonial Network Symposium:
Asylum, Refuge, Migration
A Joint Event of the University of Manchester and University of Salford
29 January 2016 (Attendance FREE)
Call for Papers
The Third Biannual NPN Symposium on ‘Asylum, Refuge, Migration’, 29 January 2016, at MediaCityUK (Salford), will bring together academic and non-academic audiences to debate the current and very pressing issues of asylum, refuge and migration. The focus of the day is therefore on conversation rather than on the delivery of formal academic papers.
We warmly invite postgraduates and ...
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CfP: “Art and Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Fiction -A Classic Anthology”
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Art and Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Fiction - -A Classic Anthology”
Edited by: Ernest N. Emenyonu, Iniobong I. Uko, & Patricia T. Emenyonu
Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps, introduced new motifs and narrative varieties which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your Neck - - Short Stories (2009), she established ...
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