Call for Papers:
Caribbean Literature at CEA 2013
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Caribbean Literature for its 44th annual conference; the conference theme is “Nature.” CEA 2013 will be held April 4-6, 2013, at the Savannah Riverfront Marriott in Savannah, Georgia. The deadline for submission is November 1, 2012. (All presenters at the 2013 CEA conference must become members of CEA by January 1, 2013.)
Description: In earlier centuries, “Nature” set the parameters, as Philip Round states, “of conversations about everything from church doctrine to village order.” Often discussions of gender, character, authorship, and even civil discourse turned to questions of “customary precedent and natural law.” By the twentieth century “nature” was used to delineate the new literary study of “nature writing,” while also used in broader terms to question the changing nature of our society with the onset of the digital age, postmodernism, new views of gender and race construction, and even changes within academia. What is the “nature” of the academia today? How has the “nature” of publishing and authorship changed with the digital age? How has the “nature” of our profession changed? In what ways does “nature” define us? Or do we define “nature?” For our 2013 meeting, CEA invites papers and panels that explore the literary, the pedagogical, and the professional “nature” of our field.
The organization welcomes individual and panel presentation proposals that address Caribbean literatures in general, including—but not limited to—the following possible themes: Racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, class, and national identities; colonization and empire; Nationalism and citizenship; hybridity, transculturation, creolite, and mestizaje; resistance and resilience; migration, exile, transnationalism, and/or globalization; travel and tourism; orality and the spoken word; intertextuality; diasporic theory and Caribbean literatures; postcolonial studies and Caribbean literatures; and comparative literary, historical, political, or cultural analyses of Caribbean literatures.
For more information, see http://www.cea-web.org
You may also email cea.english@gmail.com
Image above: “Naturaleza caribeña” by Dominican artist Mirna Ledesma; see http://mirnaledesma.artelista.com/en/
